Flexible sections format

Course formats ::: format_flexsections

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Marina Glancy

Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed on the same page or on a separate page

Latest release: 4 months

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Current versions available: 8

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This course format looks very similar to Topics format except:

sections can be added inside other sections
each section (regardless of its nesting level) can be shown either on the same page as parent or on a separate page. Teacher can change it in edit mode.
If section is displayed on a separate page, it's name is displayed as a link and on this page the link "Back to ... " is displayed

If teacher hides a section all nested sections and activities become hidden as well.

Please note that if section has both activities and subsections activities are displayed first.

On the attached screenshots the section "Quizzes" has tree subsections - "Science" and "Mathematics are displayed on the same page and "Other Uses" on a separate page. Note how course navigation looks like in this case.

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Idr S
Wed, 22 Apr 2020, 6:01 PM
Marina Glancy
Sun, 10 May 2020, 11:37 PM
hi Dan Bell, please report the issues on the https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-format_flexsections/issues (the link is on the top of the page as "Bug tracker")!
Marina Glancy
Sun, 10 May 2020, 11:48 PM
however, essential theme has reached end of life, so unfortunately, it is not possible to run it in Moodle 3.7 and above
Giulio Valentino
Tue, 19 May 2020, 4:25 PM

Hi, I think it's a good idea to insert the ability to have a css class for each section
Marina Glancy
Wed, 20 May 2020, 7:12 PM
Hi Giulio, please feel free to submit a pull request on https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-format_flexsections , also if you think somebody else would want to comment or discuss on this idea you can create an issue there
Dennis Felix
Thu, 9 July 2020, 11:15 PM
Will this plugin get an update to officially work with 3.9? We are very dependant on this plugin.
Szilárd Enyedi
Mon, 1 Feb 2021, 11:51 PM
Thank you for this useful plugin.

I am using it (v3.5.1 2020051100) in a new Moodle installation (v3.10.1 20210130, after an old Moodle server's hardware failure), with the default Boost theme. It works, seemingly as it was intended and as I used it in the older Moodle.

Would it be possible to make the sub-topics collapsible? Maybe even making that an editor's option?
Djalma Martins
Mon, 1 Mar 2021, 9:40 AM
Hi there,
would the latest version work with the latest version of Moodle?
Pierre-Yves Robert
Tue, 30 Mar 2021, 3:45 PM
Hi there,
would the latest version work with the latest version of Moodle?
Pete Learoyd
Sun, 12 Dec 2021, 3:54 AM
Similar to the previous questions, can you confirm if "Flexible Sections" will work with Moodle 4.0? I don't see a version for 4.0 showing yet.
Thanks!
Daniel Beffa
Wed, 4 May 2022, 5:58 PM
Will "Flexible Sections" work with Moodle 4.0? Best regards.
Mathieu Engels
Sat, 21 May 2022, 2:52 PM
I test this plugin with moodle 4.0 and he doesn't work. He breaks moodle with à http error 500. WARNING : It's not possible to uninstall the plugin so do not install this if you have a moodle V4.0 !
Marina Glancy
Mon, 23 May 2022, 1:07 AM
Hello! The first quick version for 4.0 is now released, however it has the same very old look as the previous versions of format_flexsections.
I'm currently working on the completely new release for 4.0 in-line with the 4.0 UI changes. You can follow development on github - https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-format_flexsections , branch new400
Alexis Morand
Mon, 23 May 2022, 8:57 PM
Thanks for the work. Hope it will work well with the new version.
Marina Glancy
Sun, 19 June 2022, 11:46 PM
Huge thanks to Ruslan Kabalin for his help! The new version of format_flexsections for Moodle 4.0 is now released