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Course contents
David MudrákWarning! This plugin is no longer maintained. It may work in recent Moodle versions but there is no support. For details of how you can become the new maintainer, see Plugins adoption programme.
Course contents block is a plugin for Moodle that displays a list of all visible sections (such as topics or weeks) in the course. Clicking at a link scrolls to that section or displays just that particular section, depending on the course layout setting.
If the section name is explicitly defined, it is displayed in the course contents outline. If enabled, the block can eventually extract a suitable section title from the section summary text.
Background
In older Moodle versions, course sections could not be named explicitly. Many teachers used to put headings manually to the course summary text fields. This block did an awesome job that it automagically extracted these headings from the summary fields and generated a nice course contents from them.
This feature is still available but it is less useful in modern Moodle versions where course sections can have explicit section titles defined.
Automatic section title
If the section name is not explicitly defined and the auto title feature is enabled, the block automatically extracts a suitable title for the section from the section summary text.
If the summary starts with a heading (H1, H2, H3, etc), the heading will use such heading text. If the summary starts with a bold text, it will be used as a section title. If the summary consists of several paragraphs, the first one will be used.
Technically speaking, the plain text content of the first non-empty HTML DOM node from the section summary can be used as the summary title.
Tips and features
- Section titles can be enumerated.
- You can combine the auto title feature with the multi-language filter to generate course contents in the user's language.
- The block fits nicely into multipage course layout (introduced in Moodle 2.3).
Screenshots
Contributors
New versions 4.0 (for Moodle 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9) and 5.0 (for 3.0 and 3.1) were just released. Among other improvements, the new version provides a way to control how the course contents blocks are displayed in courses, including ability to disable enumeration of items in all block instances. See release notes for more details.
Thanks for the suggestion James. Can you please report it as a feature request in the plugin tracker. I think I have an idea that might fit any course format: optionally display the implicit section title (date, topic number etc) even when the section has an explicit title.
Sorry to hear you have troubles with the plugin Dave. May I ask you to report the issue with as many details and steps to reproduce as possible at the plugin's issue tracker https://github.com/mudrd8mz/moodle-block_course_contents/issues Thanks in advance.
Anyone: as David says, often version for X works with X+0.1 - has anyone tested?
-Derek
I'll try to look at updating my plugins for 3.2 this week. Any help with testing current versions will significantly help, thanks in advance!
is this plugin continued? I used it in Moodle 3.2 without noticing any issues. After updating to Moodle 3.3 I only see the section 0 as navigation point which makes this plugin pretty useless in Moodle 3.3.
Best regards, Beat
Observing the same thing here. I think it only comes down to commenting out 3 lines in block_course_contents.php (the IF block containing $course->numsections), as $course->numsections is not relevant anymore due to MDL-57769.
I just filed a PR on GitHub offering a fix for this.
thank you for providing this fix. Now all the sections are there again.
Good catch! Thanks Beat for reporting this, and many thanks Nicolas for fixing it promptly. I have included the fix in the version 5.1 of the block for Moodle 3.3.
Great work with this plugin,
However i got a question to David, how can i translate to spanish all sections?, i mean stuff like navbar text, progress bar text and notes and doubts section.
i unpacked the plugin but i can't find anything.
Thanks in advance!!!
Sorry Adan, I am confused. There is actually nothing to be translated really - the block just displays the section names as defined by the teacher.
It seems to be working well in the current beta