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.
5241 sites
2k downloads
99
Latest release: Wednesday, 19 December 2018, 11:57 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.
4792 sites
2k downloads
90
Latest release: Thursday, 20 December 2018, 12:04 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.
4395 sites
2k downloads
82
Latest release: Thursday, 26 July 2018, 2:04 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.
430 sites
169 downloads
65
Latest release: Friday, 23 March 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
1395 sites
461 downloads
52
Latest release: Friday, 27 October 2017, 12:23 PM
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.
869 sites
323 downloads
48
Latest release: Thursday, 7 December 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).
298 sites
203 downloads
45
Latest release: Tuesday, 8 August 2017, 9:02 PM
format_etask
eTask topics format is based on the topics format and includes grading table (above or below the course sections) with aditional functionality such as a highlighting of grading values, grade to pass settings, motivational progress charts and much more.
346 sites
553 downloads
43
Latest release: Tuesday, 20 November 2018, 4:19 AM
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
60 downloads
35
Latest release: Friday, 27 October 2017, 2:59 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.
308 sites
289 downloads
23
Latest release: Monday, 19 November 2018, 1:16 AM
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.
204 sites
525 downloads
17
Latest release: Friday, 7 December 2018, 4:28 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.
148 sites
117 downloads
17
Latest release: Tuesday, 18 July 2017, 10:18 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.
49 sites
19 downloads
17
Latest release: Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 6:49 PM
format_tiles
A course format which displays course topics as "Tiles", 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". Icons for each tile can be selected from a predefined set (i.e. the teacher does not need to upload them).
80 sites
791 downloads
15
Latest release: Monday, 21 January 2019, 10:22 PM
format_calendar
This course format displays a course in a calendar format.
83 sites
38 downloads
12
Latest release: Thursday, 3 April 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.
99 sites
126 downloads
11
Latest release: Thursday, 20 September 2018, 11:42 PM
format_days
Modified version of Weekly format that displays sections by day rather than week.
18 sites
25 downloads
9
Latest release: Monday, 31 December 2012, 7:08 AM
format_forumtopic
Topic Forums course format adds forums below the topic sections of the Onetopic course format. Each topic has its own discussion forum.
3 sites
21 downloads
9
Released: Thursday, 6 October 2011, 6:03 AM
format_collapsibleweeks
The collapsible weeks format is a clone of the core topics format that adds collapsing behaviour to sections in order to reduce page size.
80 sites
257 downloads
6
Latest release: Friday, 7 December 2018, 4:30 PM
format_scormcloud
Provides a SCORM Cloud course format. (superseded by the new Single activity course format plugin)
12 sites
7 downloads
6
Latest release: Saturday, 3 September 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.
12 sites
45 downloads
4
Latest release: Friday, 23 March 2012, 12:30 AM
format_singleactivity
Allows to create course that consists of only one activity
14 sites
12 downloads
2
Latest release: Monday, 24 June 2013, 1:31 PM