Courses and course formats

Hi Rick,

Really interesting .  A few thoughts:

• Thank you for the compliments .
• CT (now) doesn't alter the database, but rather uses the core API to write data to and from existing tables.  Essentially to store the value of the settings and the current toggle state on a per user basis (the user preference functionality).  Although I always stress to test on a test server first.
• At some point (I think in MDL-35770 of 14th November 2012) core introduced the 'coursedisplay' setting where by you could either have all topics on one page or one topic per page.  This is what CT had until in version 3.3.0.3 for Moodle 3.3 I dropped this in favour of the 'one section' icon (dot within a circle) that takes you to the single section page.  However, I believe you state this was in CT back in the M2.x versions?
• Possibly have sub-titles for accessibility?
• I really like the comparisons and understanding of how you use the format, and how it matches your style.  It strikes me, in a positive way, that the course with the topics collapsed is like a table of contents in a technical reference book.  Thus as such, you only tend to look up what you want and read about specific bits rather than having to digest everything in one go or when you're looking something up again, you can go straight there.
• Good point with section 0, in fact it has always been that way.  But I'm now thinking that having seen what you've shown that perhaps on the single section page it should not be shown and yet still remain on the main course page.  A setting perhaps to state 'show on single section page' on / off.  Thus it remains on the main course page because of its importance but is actually clutter on the single section page because the student needs to concentrate on that specific material and knows they can always navigate back to the main course page to find it.

Kind regards,

Gareth