Courses and course formats

Including both standard and add-on course formats.

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Discussion	Started by	Replies	Last post
Grid format install removed number of sections drop down in course format	Brian Pollard	1	Gareth J Barnard Mon, 18 Mar 2019, 5:54 AM
Setting course visibility to ' Not available' from settings page to prevent students access	Johnny Tsheke	3	Jon Bolton Thu, 14 Mar 2019, 3:49 AM
sub-courses?	Kathryn Woodhead	9	Kathryn Woodhead Wed, 13 Mar 2019, 6:25 PM
Admin mark activity/course as complete for a student	Dave Hope	19	Mark Whitesides Fri, 3 Feb 2017, 11:08 PM
link activities to buttons	Isabel Baena	4	Isabel Baena Mon, 4 Mar 2019, 9:23 PM
Grid format beta pre-release with WebP support on M3.6	Gareth J Barnard	0	Gareth J Barnard Mon, 4 Mar 2019, 9:50 PM
forum and course relative email notification is not receiving.	Mahendra Kumar	0	Mahendra Kumar Thu, 28 Feb 2019, 7:02 PM
Group all events of the same course and date in a calendar rather than showing all events in the calendar...moodle	Amir Mustafa	0	Amir Mustafa Tue, 26 Feb 2019, 9:37 PM
Get course name in calendar rather than the event name	Amir Mustafa	2	Amir Mustafa Mon, 25 Feb 2019, 6:59 PM
Get course name only in calendar and activity name in popup	Amir Mustafa	1	Amir Mustafa Tue, 26 Feb 2019, 1:54 PM
Course format "Event"	Flotter Totte	5	Flotter Totte Wed, 30 Jan 2019, 12:40 PM
Topic Level View	Sally Diab	0	Sally Diab Sat, 23 Feb 2019, 12:49 AM
How-to highlight new courses	Jorge Ruben Macias	1	Shirley Gregorczyk Wed, 20 Feb 2019, 4:56 AM
HTML Error on activities descriptions	Augusto Luiz da Costa Schnorr	1	Augusto Luiz da Costa Schnorr Mon, 18 Feb 2019, 10:03 PM
Completed Activity Not Marked Complete - M3.5	Rachel Grzymkowski	1	Rachel Grzymkowski Fri, 15 Feb 2019, 10:01 PM
Course Credit Hours	marisol castro	2	Rachel Grzymkowski Thu, 15 Feb 2018, 1:01 AM
Course Backup error	Aviwe Foji	0	Aviwe Foji Fri, 15 Feb 2019, 9:31 PM
Upload file and add link option of social wall course format is not working	Mahendra Kumar	2	Mahendra Kumar Wed, 6 Feb 2019, 3:30 PM
Reading data from course URLs	Animesh KC	0	Animesh KC Sun, 10 Feb 2019, 12:51 PM
OneTopic: "Use topic summary as template" option	Rich Lewis	2	Rich Lewis Wed, 6 Feb 2019, 7:59 AM
[3.5]Why is this course in 'in Progress' on dashboard?	Richard van Iwaarden	9	Gareth J Barnard Thu, 24 Jan 2019, 5:17 PM
Preventing a user from doing a course again	Kate Rhodes	6	Ralf Hilgenstock Tue, 8 Jan 2019, 5:03 AM
SQL query to get course id based on the module topic, activities and content inside it	Amir Mustafa	3	Rick Jerz Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 1:29 AM
Grid Format and Stealth activities	Alan Muston	2	Alan Muston Tue, 22 Jan 2019, 10:41 AM
Course Completion - settings issue	J C	0	J C Tue, 29 Jan 2019, 1:01 AM
OneTopic Course Format: Restricted Section by Activity Completion is shaded for Teachers.	Mónica Sánchez	2	Mónica Sánchez Fri, 25 Jan 2019, 1:54 AM
Display all courses below top level categories	Wahyu Ag Saputra	0	Wahyu Ag Saputra Fri, 18 Jan 2019, 5:00 PM
Specific course format	Diego Molina	0	Diego Molina Sun, 13 Jan 2019, 8:09 PM
"Tiles" course format	David Watson	9	Luiggi Sansonetti Fri, 4 Jan 2019, 10:25 PM
Hide course categories/courses from certain users	Quintin Seegers	11	Gitte Bendixen Fri, 7 Apr 2017, 11:33 AM
Update number of sections in multiple courses	Ben Kahn	2	Ben Kahn Sun, 25 Nov 2018, 7:50 AM
OneTopic Error - Unknown course section in course "XXX"	Mark Terranova	11	Samuli Karevaara Wed, 6 Jun 2018, 9:11 PM
course_format: BOARD (Grid and Buttons)	Rodrigo Brandão	11	Yannick Vrolant Wed, 27 Jul 2016, 10:19 PM
Course Grid Format (show contents)	deepak rs	0	deepak rs Thu, 3 Jan 2019, 4:22 PM
Error message when adding a new course	Frank Shelton	1	Matteo Scaramuccia Thu, 3 Jan 2019, 12:37 AM
Assigned Roles not showing correctly in Course Description	Dan Jeffries	4	Colin Fraser Fri, 28 Dec 2018, 5:45 PM
Compare two courses with activities and content	Amir Mustafa	1	Gareth J Barnard Fri, 24 Aug 2018, 3:11 PM
Course template with external database	josue avendaño	1	Gareth J Barnard Fri, 9 Nov 2018, 2:27 AM
Coursebox summary	daniel white	1	Gareth J Barnard Fri, 16 Nov 2018, 12:41 AM
What did mean - Course 1 Section 0	Patrick Liersch	3	Gareth J Barnard Tue, 20 Nov 2018, 3:56 PM
Grid Format sections not appearing for admins/teacher	Marcel Roe	2	Marcel Roe Fri, 21 Dec 2018, 6:20 PM
User profile fields in participant list	Dino Schachten	1	Gareth J Barnard Mon, 19 Nov 2018, 11:46 PM
Restrict an activity from being repeated	Hamish Moffatt	1	Gareth J Barnard Thu, 22 Nov 2018, 10:16 AM
Collapsed Topics and Grid formats updated for Moodle 3.5 and 3.6.1	Gareth J Barnard	2	Gareth J Barnard Thu, 20 Dec 2018, 12:09 AM
Moodle sections Expanded and collapsed state?	James Jephcott	4	Gareth J Barnard Fri, 14 Dec 2018, 11:56 AM
Grid Format for Moodle 3.6	Agnar Gudmundsson	2	Agnar Gudmundsson Sat, 15 Dec 2018, 1:21 AM
More than one recourd per course in mdl_format_grid_summary	Lea Cohen	5	Gareth J Barnard Mon, 3 Dec 2018, 5:38 PM
Grid Format - "Hidden in Grey" for teachers.	Scott Wilson	3	Gareth J Barnard Thu, 29 Nov 2018, 10:54 PM
What is the order of the "my courses" list in the navigation bar?	Samuli Karevaara	6	Luiggi Sansonetti Fri, 16 Nov 2018, 7:21 PM
Prevent certain courses from appearing in "My courses" and "Dashboard"	Sa Ku	14	Luiggi Sansonetti Wed, 21 Nov 2018, 3:10 PM
One Topic Course Improvement - Tabs change color if activities are complete	Chris Kenniburg	2	Chris Kenniburg Sat, 17 Nov 2018, 4:57 AM
Self-enrolment restrictions upon course completion	Manny Pérez Alemán	0	Manny Pérez Alemán Fri, 16 Nov 2018, 7:43 AM
Grid format for M3.5 updated	Gareth J Barnard	0	Gareth J Barnard Mon, 12 Nov 2018, 9:23 PM
Remove the "view only topic" icon in Collapsed topics	Abdulwahab Elbarsha	2	Daniel Dubbeldam Tue, 5 Jun 2018, 9:26 PM
Stealth activities treats non-editing teacher like Student	Khari Kambon	4	Mustafa Ameen Fri, 30 Mar 2018, 3:05 AM
Filter only works in one section of buttons format	Tom Wright	8	Gareth J Barnard Fri, 19 Oct 2018, 5:02 PM
Course restore creating random users in restored course	Michael Brost	8	Michael Brost Thu, 11 Oct 2018, 7:45 PM
Unable to restore course data and imports	Ross Quinnell	18	Richard van Iwaarden Thu, 11 Oct 2018, 11:02 PM
'My Courses' not listing all the courses	Ain Roesley	2	Melanie Scott Wed, 17 Oct 2018, 6:20 AM
Rope Team course format... RIP?	Pablo Etcheverry	2	Luiggi Sansonetti Tue, 16 Oct 2018, 7:24 AM
Custom field name data from course setting does not duplicate	Amir Mustafa	1	Amir Mustafa Mon, 15 Oct 2018, 8:28 PM
Add new dropdown field in course setting page	Amir Mustafa	1	Emma Richardson Fri, 12 Oct 2018, 7:15 PM
Error while moving category to another	متعة العلم	1	Gareth J Barnard Thu, 11 Oct 2018, 4:20 PM
Course Administration Block not showing	hasmi mohamed	4	Shirley Gregorczyk Sat, 18 Nov 2017, 4:47 PM
Trying to design courses	Dan B.	5	Emma Richardson Mon, 8 Oct 2018, 10:28 PM
Course still showing in progress but it's 100% complete	Alton Johnson	2	Melanie Scott Mon, 8 Oct 2018, 8:13 AM
Moodle does not track quiz assessment when submitting.	TTCIH Ifakara	3	TTCIH Ifakara Mon, 8 Oct 2018, 5:05 PM
Course does not launch on Moodle Mobile nor Moodle Desktop	TTCIH Ifakara	2	TTCIH Ifakara Fri, 13 Jul 2018, 5:38 PM
course template	Davide Lista	1	Howard Miller Fri, 5 Oct 2018, 6:11 PM
One section per page	Narissa Tuawhiorangi	5	Narissa Tuawhiorangi Thu, 4 Oct 2018, 9:40 AM
Issue in course view in moodle 3.5	milind Test	6	milind Test Fri, 28 Sep 2018, 3:10 PM
Course creator can only see users created by themselves	Jan Kowalski	1	Colin Fraser Sat, 29 Sep 2018, 2:32 AM
Missing link for topic #0 in course format: Topics format?	stefan weber	1	Gareth J Barnard Wed, 26 Sep 2018, 5:29 PM
Making a Point Based Course?	Brandon Biggs	2	Melanie Scott Tue, 18 Sep 2018, 9:17 PM
Preserve links to sections	Dominique Bauer	7	Narissa Tuawhiorangi Mon, 30 Apr 2018, 4:07 AM
Deleting Multiple Courses+Data	uk nites	2	uk nites Wed, 19 Sep 2018, 3:44 PM
One course has two course format	Minsu Lee	1	Gareth J Barnard Tue, 11 Sep 2018, 1:58 AM
Stealth Topics	C Behan	52	Francesco Bove Mon, 29 May 2017, 10:22 PM
Can't find 'Flexible Sections Format'	Nigel Gilbert	2	Nigel Gilbert Mon, 3 Sep 2018, 4:03 PM
Collapsed Topics Plugin: Topic Titles Invisible Until Mouseover	Liam McDonagh-Greaves	8	Liam McDonagh-Greaves Fri, 17 Aug 2018, 6:49 PM
Change Background and Hover colours for Collapsed Topics via Custom CSS	Dan Jeffries	2	Gareth J Barnard Fri, 31 Aug 2018, 9:01 PM
Guest access to pages in a guest-enabled course	David McGeary	0	David McGeary Mon, 27 Aug 2018, 4:05 AM
paypal integration(for testing-sandbox)	Eswar k	0	Eswar k Thu, 23 Aug 2018, 8:13 PM
Can I remove the Course short name from the top of the Nav?	Jeff Ayling	2	Emma Richardson Mon, 20 Aug 2018, 2:37 PM
Stealth Activities	Alan Muston	13	François Lizotte Wed, 7 Mar 2018, 2:59 PM
Grid format JPGs rended as PNGs	Matthew Cook	3	Matthew Cook Thu, 9 Aug 2018, 3:09 PM
Set Number of Courses In Progress Tab - Dashboard Moodle 3.3.1	Shelly Vaughan	7	Carol Howells Fri, 18 Aug 2017, 10:21 PM
Course Deletion and User Data	Jayden Tyronian	1	Melanie Scott Fri, 3 Aug 2018, 12:32 PM
Collapsed Topics updated for Moodle 3.4 and 3.5	Gareth J Barnard	7	Przemek Kaszubski Tue, 31 Jul 2018, 5:19 AM
URGENT: Problem with Collapsed Topic Plugin	jose Nicolas	1	Gareth J Barnard Fri, 3 Aug 2018, 2:11 AM
Course Completion -> Add to Cohort	Scott Schwarz	1	Murilo Timo Neto Sat, 28 Jul 2018, 11:24 AM
Single activity format for multiple quizzes	Femi Byte	4	Femi Byte Thu, 26 Jul 2018, 8:52 PM
Collapsed Topics Possible to change color upon completion?	Don Schwartz	2	Gareth J Barnard Thu, 26 Jul 2018, 2:25 AM
Ability to use Stealth activities with all content types	Beverley Owens	8	Jim Judges Tue, 23 Jan 2018, 12:22 AM
Grid format - unable to scroll the pop-up window	Donald Welsh	1	Gareth J Barnard Thu, 19 Jul 2018, 2:20 PM
Export Course	Alexander Kimpton	1	Mary Cooch Thu, 19 Jul 2018, 1:17 AM
STYLE.CSS	jose Nicolas	1	Gareth J Barnard Thu, 19 Jul 2018, 3:55 AM
Folding and unfolding course sections using topcoll	Barry Matthias	6	Gareth J Barnard Fri, 13 Jul 2018, 10:53 PM
Course Start Date and Time	Emma Richardson	14	Emma Richardson Thu, 11 May 2017, 5:55 AM
Students not showing in Activity Completion Report	Samantha Homer	1	Christina Munoz Fri, 6 Jul 2018, 7:19 AM