Course formats 
Course format plugins allow different layouts and structures for course activities.
Join the discussions about course formats in the Courses and course formats forum.
format_grid
A modular and visual course format. Hides all topics and creates a grid of icons (one for each topic) with short titles. Clicking on an icon brings up the content from the corresponding topic.
6417 sites
3k downloads
135
Latest release: Thursday, November 21, 2019, 1:24 AM
format_tiles
A course format which displays course topics as "Tiles", in a grid rather than as a list. When clicked, tile content is displayed under the tile with an animated transition. The layout adapts to different screen sizes and orientations. Within each tile, activities can also be set to display as "sub-tiles". For each tile, the teacher can pick an icon from a predefined set, or upload a background photo.
3840 sites
3k downloads
135
Latest release: Monday, August 26, 2019, 8:08 PM
format_topcoll
An interchangeable topic or week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics.
5346 sites
3k downloads
119
Latest release: Tuesday, June 30, 2020, 1:08 AM
format_onetopic
Format to course that allows showing each topic in a tab, keeping the current tab between calls to resources, in such a way that when it returns from a module as the blog or the glossary it returns to tab from where you started. This format is based on the Moodle standard format: “Topics”. It accepts edition by AJAX.
5727 sites
3k downloads
113
Latest release: Monday, December 16, 2019, 4:24 PM
format_socialwall
The Moodle Socialwall will transform your Moodle course into a social learning platform. This includes a familiar post interface, timeline of posts, filtering of the timeline, and integration with Moodle's activities and resources. A social learning format allows teachers to pick up the tool and begin using it right away.
578 sites
382 downloads
73
Latest release: Friday, March 23, 2018, 8:09 PM
format_flexsections
Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed expanded or collapsed
1771 sites
1k downloads
68
Latest release: Monday, May 11, 2020, 11:24 PM
format_etask
eTask topics format is based on the topics format. Includes grading table (above or below the course sections) with additional functionality such as a highlighting of grading values, grade to pass settings, motivational progress bars and much more.
474 sites
661 downloads
65
Latest release: Friday, June 12, 2020, 1:17 AM
format_board
"Board" (Grids and Blocks) is a course format in grid for Moodle 2.8 or later with full flexibility between sections and columns.
You can choose quantity and width of columns and quantity of sections in each column.
1009 sites
498 downloads
57
Latest release: Thursday, December 7, 2017, 10:10 PM
format_mindmap
Mindmap Course Format allows Moodle users using courses through interactive, personalized mindmap.
Additionally, it provides features unavailable in standard Moodle, which are: graphical presentation of conditional dependencies and distinction of modules where student have problems (and which are near deadline).
317 sites
250 downloads
52
Latest release: Tuesday, August 8, 2017, 9:02 PM
format_collapsibletopics
The collapsible topics format is a clone of the core topics format that adds collapsing behaviour to sections in order to reduce page size.
1234 sites
1k downloads
45
Latest release: Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 10:01 PM
format_periods
This course format allows to set duration for each section (period) in days, weeks, months or years. Each individual section (period) may override this duration.
The course settings allow automatically collapse or hide past or future periods.
229 sites
133 downloads
41
Latest release: Friday, October 27, 2017, 2:59 PM
format_remuiformat
Let your students focus on what matters - learning, with the all-new and intuitive Edwiser Course Formats plugin! Choose from unique course formats like Card and List.
2538 sites
2k downloads
34
Latest release: Thursday, June 18, 2020, 6:43 PM
format_masonry
This course format displays all sections like a masonry build brick wall. Every section can have a different background and is dynamically placed into a fluent style page.
384 sites
461 downloads
28
Latest release: Saturday, June 13, 2020, 4:19 AM
format_multitopic
Shows multiple topics per page, with tabbed navigation between pages. Topics are collapsible, and can optionally be timed.
660 sites
824 downloads
26
Latest release: Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 2:31 PM
format_flexible
The Flexible course format is based on Grid adding better mobile support, responsiveness, completion tracking and the ability to make sections collapsable.
694 sites
980 downloads
24
Latest release: Thursday, October 17, 2019, 11:15 PM
format_gps
The course format „GPS Format“ allows e-learning content to be displayed according to the geo coordinates of the learner. This enables location-based mobile learning.
55 sites
55 downloads
21
Latest release: Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 6:49 PM
format_flexpage
Moodlerooms is proud to release Flexpage, a course format that provides a teacher with complete control over how educational materials and assessments are presented to a student.
91 sites
158 downloads
18
Latest release: Tuesday, July 18, 2017, 10:18 PM
format_softcourse
Softcourse is a course format that display sections with only an image and an optional text on the course homepage. Users don’t see the detail of the section, for instance, resources or activities.
288 sites
592 downloads
15
Latest release: Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 11:07 PM
format_calendar
This course format displays a course in a calendar format.
72 sites
123 downloads
14
Latest release: Thursday, April 3, 2014, 7:17 AM
format_folderview
Blackboard Open Source is proud to release Folder View, a course format that displays activities and resources within a folder that is expandable or collapsible.
74 sites
150 downloads
12
Latest release: Thursday, September 20, 2018, 11:42 PM
format_forumtopic
Topic Forums course format adds forums below the topic sections of the Onetopic course format. Each topic has its own discussion forum.
2 sites
49 downloads
12
Released: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 6:03 AM
format_days
Modified version of Weekly format that displays sections by day rather than week.
20 sites
68 downloads
10
Latest release: Monday, December 31, 2012, 7:08 AM
format_event
The course format "Event" is intended to be used for short training events. Upon course creation, it creates a corresponding calendar event.
31 sites
77 downloads
9
Latest release: Monday, April 15, 2019, 10:38 AM
format_scormcloud
Provides a SCORM Cloud course format. (superseded by the new Single activity course format plugin)
7 sites
27 downloads
6
Latest release: Saturday, September 3, 2011, 5:31 AM
format_weekcoll
A week based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many weeks.
13 sites
59 downloads
4
Latest release: Friday, March 23, 2012, 12:30 AM
format_singleactivity
Allows to create course that consists of only one activity
3 sites
33 downloads
3
Latest release: Monday, June 24, 2013, 1:31 PM