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Hi Alex,

Many thanks to you and to everyone at NetSapiensis who worked on this block. I find that it is much clearer than the standard navigation block. The configuration options are a very good idea as Moodle is used in so many different contexts and on so many different scales.

My organisation's use of Moodle is on the smaller end of the scale. I therefore try to use the absolute minimal number of blocks, options, possibilities. I am using the Course menu block with the  'Show All Sections' and 'My courses' options enabled.

When using the menu 'My courses' will expand and show 'participants'. For me this only lists the current user and I feel that it is redudant. Is there any way of removing the 'Participants' part of the menu as illustrated below? I would like to remove everything within the blue rectangle.

I am using Moodle 2.03.
Course menu version 2011051801

Many thanks

~thomas

Thank you for the Course Menu block, I find it very useful, especially the Chapter grouping functionality.

I would like the tree to automatically collapse when the user moves to a new section, so that the block doesn't become too long. Is there a simple code tweak to do this?

Many thanks.

Hi Alex

We met at the Moodlemoot in Dublin last week where you showed me your block which I really like.

The difficulty I am having is with menu items being trimmed too much e.g. Assessment information is trimmed to 'Assesment...'

In the sitewide settings for the block it is set to  trimlength:0

In the course settings I have it at mode: trim characters from right, '0' characters and expandable tree.

Is it possible to display any more characters? (I'm on Windows IE9/FF and Chrome

Thanks in advance for your help

Brett

Does this work in 2.2?

Hello Alex,

I have just installed the Course Menu Block as it appears to be exactly what I am looking for as far as functionality is concerned. I am just having an issue with the configuration. I have attempted to Turn On the Expandable Tree - however it keeps jumping back to the default of 'No" . I am also unable to 'Activate Chapter Groupings' or 'Activate Custom links'. Is there some other setting that I need to access for these to work. Any help here is really appreciated.

Thanks

Peter

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me how may I go about configuring such that this course-menu block appears across all the courses and its pages at the top left column, with the same options and configurations, and not on the home page or front page. Currently, I have to go to each course, turn editing on and add the block manually which is unfeasible for me given the huge number of courses I have. I am unable to find this global i.e site-wide configuration/setting options for any block for that matter including the Navigation block in Moodle 2.x (I wish to remove the Navigation block site-wide also, because some of its menu-items overlap with the ones in the course-menu block thereby causing redundancy and I prefer this course block over the navigation one)

Also, is there a way to add a link to this course-menu block for Participants, clicking on which, we can see a list of all the users (student/faculty etc) who are enrolled for that particular course?

(I am using Modle 2.2)

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thanks
Deepa Gupta

Alex,

This block is very flexible, and many of us would like it to be part of the core moodle, thanks for supporting and sharing it. Do you have a time frame for it to be compatible with Moodle 2.3?

Hi Alex

I've been working with Course Menu block for a while now and am incorporating it into a default template. However, I have noticed that if I use a weekly format the Course Menu does not pick up the default headings specified by the format i.e. 10 May - 16 May etc.

Could you let me know what the correct behaviour of the menu should be if you use the weekly format?

I am using a bespoke weekly page format so am not sure if it is a design or config issue.

Thanks in advance

Brett

Thanks for this useful plugin. It is very popular. Unfortunately it clashes with the also popular jQuery javascript library which some site designers include to support widgets like collapsing menus and slideshows.

The problem is that Course Menu defines a javascript function called "$" in the javascript global namespace, and jQuery re-defines a function of the same name. Symptoms of the name clash when any version of jQuery is included are 1. the "Elements" list in the config page remains empty 2. users are unable to save config changes (e.g. changing the number of characters to trim) and values are set back to defaults.

I'd encourage you to modify the javascript, wrapping the functions in some kind of local scope (e.g. namespace or Object). Or at minimum rename the $ function.

Hi all,

I thought you might like to know that I've been investigating an issue here at Queen Mary, University of London with the Course Menu block not interacting correctly with the Collapsed Topics course format. Our problem is that clicking on the section name in the Course Menu doesn't open that section in a Collapsed Topics course.

If anyone is interested I have a demo of the modification here:

http://moodle2.heavy-horse.co.uk/login/index.php

You can log in using the following usernames and passwords:

• teacher1, teacher1
• student1, student1

I have fixes for 2.2 and 2.3 (which is what my demo is based on).

Hope this helps,

Ian.

Alex: Many weeks on now, we are enjoying this block.

I have a question: is there a way to get the traditional participants list into the block? 

The participants link in the configuration does not show it.  Just the blogs etc.

As a work around, I have been finding the link, and creating a manual link to the participants list.

-Derek

I can't add the block in course.
I had no problem installing it, but when trying adding the block in a course, I'm getting this:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function course_set_display() in /var/www/html/moodle20/blocks/course_menu/block_course_menu.php on line 653

I'm running on moodle 2.3.2.

any ideas?

thanks

Hi Alex, we're running a fresh install of Moodle 2.4.3 - is the Course Menu block compatible with this version (i.e. can we use the current 2.3 STABLE version of the block?)