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Topics format (colours)
Colours course format
This course format, based on the 'Topics' standard format, allows a teacher to specify the foreground and background colours for each course section.
About
This format was created by Davo Smith of Synergy Learning, on behalf of Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg.
The main lib.php and formats.php files are only lightly modified from those found within the standard format_topics, the rest is new code.
Usage
This format is now compatible with Moodle 2.3 - make sure you download the appropriate version, based on which Moodle version you are running.
- On the course settings page, choose the format 'Topics format (colours)'.
- Click on the 'Edit colours' icon (on the left of a course section) to edit the colours for that section.
- Click on the 'Copy colours' icon (below the 'Edit colours' icon) to copy the colours from another section into the current section.
Note: only users with the capability 'format/colours:editcolours' (by
default, manager, coursecreator and editingteacher roles) can edit
course colours.
Note: This is compatible with the core Moodle Themes, but may not work
as well custom themes.
Further enquiries
If you have any questions about this plugin or are interested in further development work, please contact info@synergy-learning.com
Screenshots
Great feature to make the pages come alive and to visually organize courses into similar categories and even just to make a visual separation of the course.
However, the links only have one color option.
Is it possible to add another color option for when the mouse hovers over the links. this way the links can be more obvious to students. Thank you for a great plugin!!!
I've noted that this plugin uses yui2 libraries.
Do note that moodle version 2.4 (in development) has moved from using yui2 to yui2in3 as described by MDL-34741.
Here is a link to using yui2in3 : http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/yui/yui-yui2.html