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Flexible sections format
Course formats ::: format_flexsections
Maintained by 
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
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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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the scorm activity open in a new popup window. but the problem that i am facing is once the popup window open, the parent window redirect to main section. skipping the level 2. is there any fix for this?
I need to have a user/role who will have permissions to edit only one specific section in a course.
Ideally, myuser(let's say) will have access only to one section of a course. Nobody else will have the rights to edit this section.
Is it possible? and in what way?
Its like the locally assigned role, but on the section level.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards
Unfortunately it is not very easy in any course format. Course sections do not have a context associated with them and roles can be assigned only for particular context.
We are actually in the need of expand and collapse options like "Collapsed Topic format" to have a great usability. As it is now, it re-loads the whole page for every click (expand, collapse, view etc). Any idea of getting this feature in? it would be a great hit if it does so. Thanks.
Any chance on a fix? I'd hate to loose this!!!!
So in my case I really want to display sub topics with in a topic (or module), but I need the first level to be per page ... like in the normal topics format
Maybe I missed an option somewhere?!?
Anyway awesome plugin! Just missing my requirements
Awesome plugin though.
Thanks for the reply. I see the collapse options, but none of them work. I have check the display as admin and student, but no luck :/
Aside from that, I feel the page nesting functionality is still quite important. If you have a huge course, you may be able to collapse things, but it can still get quite messy. It would be great to be able to say what level of sections display on new pages. Just some thoughts. I still think it's great
course format usually don't affect backup process but I can look at that. Can you please tell what version and what build number of Moodle core you are using?
Marina