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Collapsible Topics format
Course formats ::: format_collapsibletopics
Maintained by
Jean-Roch Meurisse
Warning: since sections collapsing behaviour is now integrated into Moodle core, this plugin will not be maintained for Moodle 4.x
The collapsible topics format is a clone of the core topics format that adds collapsing behaviour to sections in order to reduce page size.
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Current versions available: 4
Warning: since sections collapsing behaviour is now integrated into Moodle core, this plugin will not be maintained for Moodle 4.x
The collapsible topics format is a clone of the core topics format that adds collapsing behaviour to sections in order to reduce page size. A plugin setting allow to retain topics collapse state on a per user basis for the current session or across sessions. This plugin is an alternative to Gareth J. Barnard's format_topcoll plugin (see references below) The purpose is to offer a simple collapsing behaviour for sections in order to reduce course home page size without all the display options that Gareth's plugin offers.
The collapsible topics format is a clone of the core topics format that adds collapsing behaviour to sections in order to reduce page size. A plugin setting allow to retain topics collapse state on a per user basis for the current session or across sessions. This plugin is an alternative to Gareth J. Barnard's format_topcoll plugin (see references below) The purpose is to offer a simple collapsing behaviour for sections in order to reduce course home page size without all the display options that Gareth's plugin offers.
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I do not have a 3.10 installed at the time. Are you experiencing issues with 3.9 version of the plugin in your Moodle 3.10?
The topics always display in Blue. In the stylesheet however, it is easy to change this colour! A suggestion to make the colour for the topics a parameter?
For consistency, we decided to use the color used for links. Anyway, you can override that by adding a custom scss rule in administration
.course-content ul.collapsibletopics li.section .sectionname {
color: your-color-code;
}
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We are testing v.3.9 of the plugin in our Moodle 3.10 development environment - because we've had some reports of students not being able to expand some topic sections within our production 3.10 environment, which uses v3.8 of the plugin.
With v.3.9, we are finding that while in the student view, the collapse/expand all function doesn't work for all topic sections but all topic sections can be individually expanded. Reading through some of the comments, we have javascript caching enabled and are having this issue. Do you have any other ideas of what we could try with v.3.9 to improve the course format's function in 3.10.4?
Thanks!
I currently do not have a 3.10 running so it's difficult for me to reproduce. Could you check the browser console for potential javascript errors when trying to "expand all" and please record the issue in the bug tracker rather than here
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Has anyone tried the plugin yet on Moodle 3.11? Is it working with no issues?
thx!
Actually, there are still two differences:
The plugin records the topics collapse state in the browser rather than in DB and it offers an optional topic progress bar
IMO these small differences do not justify continuing to maintain this plugin (and its companion collapsibleweeks)
Quick question, it looks like if I "Mark as done" an activity, the completion tracking shown on the topic is not automatically refreshed, and I need to refresh the page in order for the value to be updated.
Is that behaviour on purpose or an issue? Running a Moodle v3.11.5+ here.
Thanks,
Thanks for reporting this
You're right, I fixed it. You can get the fix on github (branch moodle311). I'll publish a release in the next few days.
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When can we expect a plugin update for Moodle version 4.0?
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