Hi, I'm new to Moodle. The course format documentation states that the "weekly" course format "may be arranged in one or multiple weeks, topics, forums or other (non-standard) layouts." I've been teaching with biweekly units on Blackboard for years, so I tried to set up my Moodle course the same way.
To set up the course into biweekly units, I replaced weekly labels with biweekly ones. For example, I replaced the first week's numbers and dates with "Week 1-2 (Jan. 12-25)." Unfortunately, now that I'm in the second week of class, the green "This Week" icon appears next to the folder labeled "Week 3-4 (Jan. 26-Feb. 8)," treating this as the second week, rather than sticking with Week 1-2. Is there a way to fix this, preferably one that doesn't require renaming or redesigning every unit?
For myself, I don't care much where that "This Week" icon appears, but I'm afraid it will confuse enough students to be a problem. Any suggestions are welcome!
Hello Chris,
I think you may be able to add an extra dummy sections between each your current ones and hide them. The highlighting will not be visible half the time. but I would think that is an improvement over what you have.
Thanks for your work-around suggestions, Emma and Daniel! I decided to stick with weeks formatting, which meant deleting and reposting all my content, making every other week blank. Unfortunately, we cannot just insert intermediate dummy units after the fact, for the reasons Emma gave.
Switching to topics would have been easier, but being new to Moodle, I decided to stick with what little I knew and my colleagues' recommendations.
That "periods" plugin is several years out of date (Moodle 2.8).
Apparently, the documentation about "multiple weeks" should be corrected.