If you pull the latest version of Fordson from Github there is a new Theme Admin setting "Enable Enhanced Frontpage Coursebox" which displays the available courses in styled boxes and I use a trim feature to cut-off long course titles to maintain appearance.
To fix the cut-off issue for long course titles I added a tooltip which will display the entire course title when a user hovers over the truncated text.
Thats why I needed to get tooltips working today.