Courses and course formats

Is it ever possible to convert all courses that use Periods format to Multitopic format?

Periods format does not support Moodle versions > 3.4 and makes it impossible to upgrade... It would be very handly to use Multitopic as a drop-in replacement for Periods format.

Hello James.

Is it posible to duplicate a topic with all the subtopics in?

I need to create a structure of  template and it has several topics in a main topic, I need to duplicate the main topic several times too with the content.

Thanks for your help.

Collapsible topics

Hi, I'm having trouble with this course format. My topics doesn't collapse! 

I'm running Moodle 3.5, with the Klass theme. It didn't allow me to copy and paste the README.css in the HEADER section. Instead, I pasted it into a special section of the Klass theme, named "theme_klass | customcss". Everything works fine, except for the topics, which aren't collapsable. 

The code I pasted:

/* Page */
body.format-multitopic div#page {
    max-width: 1680px;
}

/* Course Header */
body.format-multitopic div#course-header > div#course-header-banner {
    max-width: none;  /* Needed on LTD server? */
    background-size: cover;
}
body.format-multitopic div#course-header > div#course-header-banner > div#course-header-banner-text {
    padding: 40px;
    font-size: xx-large;
    color: #fff;
    background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4);
}
body.format-multitopic div#course-header > p#course-header-banner_attribution {
    text-align: right;
    margin: 0;
    font-size: xx-small;
}

/* Tabs */
/* INCLUDED moodle/course/format/onetopic CHANGED. */
body.format-multitopic .course-content ul.nav-tabs li a .tab_content {
    border-top: transparent 2px solid;
}
body.format-multitopic .course-content ul.nav-tabs li a .tab_content.marker {
    border-top: #06c 2px solid;
}
body.format-multitopic .course-content ul.nav-tabs li a .tab_content.dimmed {
    color: #999;
    background-color: transparent;
}
/* END INCLUDED */

/* Generic Section */
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section {
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
    position: initial !important; /* stylelint-disable-line declaration-no-important */
    visibility: inherit;
    margin-bottom: 1rem;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section .content {
    display: block;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section .content .sectionname {
    background: #eee;
    padding: 10px;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    font-size: large;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section:not(.hidden) .content .sectionname {
    color: #000;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section:not(.hidden) .content .sectionname a {
    color: #000;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section .content .sectionname .section_subtitle {
    font-size: small;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section .summary {
    padding: 1rem;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section .summary .section_image_holder {
    text-align: right;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section .section_image_holder {
    float: right;
    width: 240px;
    font-size: xx-small;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section .section_image_holder img {
    width: 240px;
    height: 180px;
    object-fit: cover;
}

/* Section Anchor Jump Fix */
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section::before {
    display: block;
    content: " ";
    margin-top: -100px;
    height: 100px;
    visibility: hidden;
    pointer-events: none;
    position: initial;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section {
    background: none;
}

/* Page Section */
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.section-page .content .sectionname {
    background: url("[page_heading_background]");
    padding: 30px;
    font-size: x-large;
}

/* Topic Section */
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.section-topic {
    margin-left: 1rem;
    margin-right: 1rem;
}

/* Current Section */
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.current .content h3 {
    border-left: #06c 2px solid;
}

/* Timed Topic Section */
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.section-topic-timed .content .sectionname {
    background: linear-gradient(to right, #7ce, #7bb);
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.section-topic-timed:not(.hidden) .content .sectionname {
    color: #fff;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.section-topic-timed:not(.hidden) .content .sectionname a {
    color: #fff;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.section-topic-timed .content .section_availability {
    background: #eee;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.section-topic-timed .content .summary {
    background: #eee;
}

/* Hidden Section */
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.hidden .content .sectionname {
    color: #868e96;
}
body.format-multitopic ul.sections li.section.hidden .content .sectionname a {
    color: #868e96;
}

I'm I missing something? Should I add some extra code somewhere? I would really appretiated your help.

Thanks in advance.

Juan Carlos García Melgar

Hi, James! I find this course formst very convenient, but i have noticed interesting thing. 

1. I create a section as a topic, then make it second-level page.

2. Then i click "edit" and "move page left", "move page right".

3. After this actions i make the section as topic again.

Now i see i cannot collapse this section (example on picture) and section has icon 'fa-list'. How can i make it collapsible again?

My moodle version is 3.6.9+ (Build: 20200312), module version is v1.1.2 (2020062404).

Hello!

Is there a way to have all of the sections to expand or collapse? I can do this one by one but it would be good to have an option to do so for all items on the page.

Thanks!

Stephen

Hi James,
I would like to have different colors for every first level tag title (and other levels) but I don't know how to do it. I try to change the README_styles.css file but I don't get it.

Hello everyone, I've been using the plugin for 3 months but I have a problem with the display. When I paste the image into course image, it works fine. I have the problem that the course image (banner) is no longer displayed correctly