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Course format plugins allow different layouts and structures for course activities.

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format_tiles
A course format which displays course topics as "Tiles", in a grid rather than as a list. When clicked, tile content is displayed under the tile with an animated transition. The layout adapts to different screen sizes and orientations. Within each tile, activities can also be set to display as "sub-tiles". For each tile, the teacher can pick an icon from a predefined set, or upload a background photo.
Latest release: 20767 sites 6k downloads 454
Supports Moodle 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_buttons
Buttons is a course format that creates a menu with buttons to access the sections, one by one. Please favourite ♥!
Latest release: 4708 sites 1k downloads 255
Supports Moodle 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_grid
A modular and visual course format. Hides all topics and creates a grid of icons (one for each topic) with short titles. Clicking on an icon brings up the content from the corresponding topic.
Latest release: 8594 sites 3k downloads 187
Supports Moodle 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_onetopic
Course format that allows showing each topic in a tab, keeping the current tab between calls to resources, in such a way that when it returns from a module as the blog or the glossary it returns to tab from where you started. This format is based on the Moodle standard format: “Topics”.
Latest release: 10088 sites 2k downloads 181
Supports Moodle 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_remuiformat
Let your students focus on what matters - learning, with the all-new and intuitive Edwiser Course Formats plugin! Choose from unique course formats like Card and List.
Latest release: 8623 sites 2k downloads 172
Supports Moodle 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_topcoll
An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics.
Latest release: 5467 sites 2k downloads 170
Supports Moodle 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_flexsections
Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed on the same page or on a separate page
Latest release: 4842 sites 1k downloads 144
Supports Moodle 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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Place the grading table with additional functionality directly on the course page and manage gradable activities easily. Provide your students a quick overview of grading and motivate them to be better.
Latest release: 646 sites 178 downloads 115
Supports Moodle 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
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format_designer
Mix and match layouts to create unique and visually appealing course designs
Latest release: 1312 sites 464 downloads 100
Supports Moodle 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
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format_multitopic
Shows multiple topics per page, with tabbed navigation between pages. Topics are collapsible, and can optionally be timed.
Latest release: 3374 sites 736 downloads 98
Supports Moodle 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
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format_socialwall
The Moodle Socialwall will transform your Moodle course into a social learning platform. This includes a familiar post interface, timeline of posts, filtering of the timeline, and integration with Moodle's activities and resources. A social learning format allows teachers to pick up the tool and begin using it right away.
Latest release: 233 sites 46 downloads 83
Supports Moodle 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.3
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format_trail
Trail format was developed based on the Grid format plugin. He distributes the grids on a trail. Some features were designed to meet some aspects of gamification, being able to change the background style and transparency for grids. In addition to having the responsibility for mobile equipment.
Latest release: 1618 sites 572 downloads 78
Supports Moodle 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4
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format_kickstart
Create courses faster and make them more consistent across your organization using course templates.
Latest release: 889 sites 323 downloads 74
Supports Moodle 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
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format_popups
The Pop up activities course format displays resources and simple activities embedded in modals instead of redirecting from the course page.
Latest release: 1364 sites 408 downloads 69
Supports Moodle 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_collapsibletopics
Warning: since sections collapsing behaviour is now integrated into Moodle core, this plugin will not be maintained for Moodle 4.x The collapsible topics format is a clone of the core topics format that adds collapsing behaviour to sections in order to reduce page size.
Latest release: 827 sites 172 downloads 69
Supports Moodle 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11
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format_softcourse
Softcourse is a course format that display sections with only an image and an optional text on the course homepage. Users don’t see the detail of the section, for instance, resources or activities.
Latest release: 1138 sites 273 downloads 64
Supports Moodle 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_flexible
The Flexible course format is based on Grid adding better mobile support, responsiveness, completion tracking and the ability to make sections collapsable.
Latest release: 579 sites 72 downloads 62
Supports Moodle 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8
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format_board
"Board" (Grids and Blocks) is a course format in grid for Moodle 2.8 or later with full flexibility between sections and columns. You can choose quantity and width of columns and quantity of sections in each column.
Latest release: 663 sites 209 downloads 62
Supports Moodle 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9
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format_mindmap
Mindmap Course Format allows Moodle users using courses through interactive, personalized mindmap. Additionally, it provides features unavailable in standard Moodle, which are: graphical presentation of conditional dependencies and distinction of modules where student have problems (and which are near deadline).
Latest release: 102 sites 22 downloads 59
Supports Moodle 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5
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format_ludic
LUDIC presents course structure and contents graphically. A range of gamification options are also provided to strengthen student engagement.
Latest release: 245 sites 53 downloads 48
Supports Moodle 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11
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format_periods
This course format allows to set duration for each section (period) in days, weeks, months or years. Each individual section (period) may override this duration. The course settings allow automatically collapse or hide past or future periods.
Latest release: 55 sites 23 downloads 44
Supports Moodle 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4
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format_menutopic
Course format that allows you to display the topics/sections in a menu.
Latest release: 898 sites 310 downloads 40
Supports Moodle 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_masonry
This course format displays all sections like a masonry build brick wall. Every section can have a different background and is dynamically placed into a fluent style page.
Latest release: 445 sites 127 downloads 40
Supports Moodle 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_timeline
A simple timeline to simulate a real social network course in moodle.
Latest release: 305 sites 97 downloads 37
Supports Moodle 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3
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format_topicsactivitycards
Course format which overrides the topics format to display activities as cards with various opportunities for customisation.
Latest release: 493 sites 205 downloads 33
Supports Moodle 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 5.0
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Tabs Course Format (with Activity Tracking)
Latest release: 120 sites 63 downloads 32
Supports Moodle 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2
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format_tabtopics
This Moodle course format displays each section in a tab
Latest release: 216 sites 60 downloads 27
Supports Moodle 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6
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format_gps
The course format „GPS Format“ allows e-learning content to be displayed according to the geo coordinates of the learner. This enables location-based mobile learning.
Latest release: 19 sites 11 downloads 23
Supports Moodle 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0
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format_cards
Show each section of your course as a large card
Latest release: 783 sites 431 downloads 19
Supports Moodle 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_weeksrev
Weekly format listed in reverse format so first week at bottom and current week at the top
Latest release: 108 sites 39 downloads 19
Supports Moodle 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11
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format_flexpage
Moodlerooms is proud to release Flexpage, a course format that provides a teacher with complete control over how educational materials and assessments are presented to a student.
Latest release: 34 sites 53 downloads 19
Supports Moodle 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2
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This course format displays a course in a calendar format.
Latest release: 41 sites 21 downloads 17
Supports Moodle 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6
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format_collapsibleweeks
Warning: since sections collapsing behaviour is now integrated into Moodle core, this plugin will not be maintained for Moodle 4.x The collapsible weeks format is a clone of the core topics format that adds collapsing behaviour to sections in order to reduce page size.
Latest release: 132 sites 31 downloads 16
Supports Moodle 3.5 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11
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format_event
The course format "Event" is intended to be used for short training events. Upon course creation, it creates a corresponding calendar event.
Latest release: 23 sites 19 downloads 15
Supports Moodle 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5
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format_ludilearn
🎮 🔄 👤 Transform your Moodle courses with adaptive gamification! LudiLearn intelligently assigns game elements (score, badge, progression, avatar, timer, ranking) based on each learner's profile or teacher's choice to boost engagement and success.
Latest release: 137 sites 186 downloads 14
Supports Moodle 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
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format_folderview
Blackboard Open Source is proud to release Folder View, a course format that displays activities and resources within a folder that is expandable or collapsible.
Latest release: 15 sites 60 downloads 12
Supports Moodle 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.4
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Topic Forums course format adds forums below the topic sections of the Onetopic course format. Each topic has its own discussion forum.
Released: 3 sites 5 downloads 12
Supports Moodle 2.0 | 2.1
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format_columns
Topic based course format with the ability to arrange the topics in columns except 0.
Latest release: 48 sites 52 downloads 11
Supports Moodle 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0
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format_noticebd
A topic based course format with the latest post in the news forum displayed at the top.
Latest release: 25 sites 42 downloads 11
Supports Moodle 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.9 | 3.0
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format_days
Modified version of Weekly format that displays sections by day rather than week.
Latest release: 13 sites 16 downloads 11
Supports Moodle 2.3 | 2.4
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format_learningmap
This course format allows you to use learningmaps (https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_learningmap) as the main page of your course.
Latest release: 129 sites 124 downloads 10
Supports Moodle 4.4 | 4.5 | 5.0
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format_redirected
This course format redirects to courses that metalink the current one.
Latest release: 90 sites 12 downloads 10
Supports Moodle 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
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The Personalised Study Guide (PSG) plugin is an adaptive course format designed to replace the Topics format.
Latest release: 17 sites 11 downloads 9
Supports Moodle 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.10 | 3.11
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format_scormcloud
Provides a SCORM Cloud course format. (superseded by the new Single activity course format plugin)
Latest release: 1 sites 36 downloads 9
Supports Moodle 2.0 | 2.1
format_sections
Based on the core Topics format, but including aspects of the social course format and other settings.
Latest release: 59 sites 27 downloads 8
Supports Moodle 4.0
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This course format, based on the 'Topics' standard format, allows a teacher to specify the foreground and background colours for each course section.
Latest release: 38 sites 24 downloads 8
Supports Moodle 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4
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Course format Workplace list, that used to be part of Moodle Workplace
Latest release: 201 sites 35 downloads 5
Supports Moodle 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2
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format_weekcoll
A week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many weeks.
Latest release: 20 sites 32 downloads 4
Supports Moodle 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2
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format_btns
The purpose of this plugin is got content of the courses in moodle (sections and modules) with buttons, in a esay navigation.
Latest release: 46 sites 22 downloads 3
Supports Moodle 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.5
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