NED - Tabs Course Format

Course formats ::: format_fntabs
Maintained by Fern Oliveira
Part of set NED.
Tabs Course Format (with Activity Tracking)
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30 downloads
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Current versions available: 3
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The Tabs Course Format displays sections as numbered tabs. The number of tabs is unlimited and the colour settings (text, hover, background, etc.) can be customized.

In addition, this course format includes an alternative Activity Tracking System, which tracks the following activity completion statuses:

  • Complete
  • Incomplete
  • Draft (saved by not submitted)
  • Not Attempted
  • Waiting for grade (student has submitted this activity) 

As shown in the screenshot below, these statuses are represented in the form of an icon on the left side of the activity name.

The tabs also provide a quick overview of the activity completion status by showing a green bar, in sections where all activity are complete, and a red bar, where more work is required.  Students can also mouseover tabs to see a quick report of the activity statuses for any given week/section. 

If you are using our Activity Tracking System on your site, it is recommended that you also install the My Progress block.

*Note that the activity tracking system (and My Progress block) can only be seen by students. Teachers can "login as" student so see this function in action.

 

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  • Anthony Borrow
    Anthony Borrow
    Wed, 21 Aug 2013, 3:14 AM
    Fernando - Under useful links, the Website URL is not a functional one. What did you intend that to be. Also, for reporting issues or bugs, do you prefer using the Moodle Tracker or the Github.com issues? Peace - Anthony
  • Anthony Borrow
    Anthony Borrow
    Wed, 21 Aug 2013, 3:33 AM
    Fernando - I would like to suggest renaming your Github.com repository before we share this to follow the Moodle recommended standard of moodle-format_fntabs. Also, I am curious about the differences between this plugin and https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_tabtopics. When possible I try to avoid having two plugins that are the same and instead encouraging the developers to consider working together. If there are functional differences that make it possible to distinguish the two plugins from each other then that is fine but we want to avoid duplication of effort and creating confusion/fragmentation within the community. Peace - Anthony
  • Anthony Borrow
    Anthony Borrow
    Wed, 21 Aug 2013, 3:35 AM
    I would prefer to see a more text based description of the plugin and save the screenshots for the screen shot section. Peace - Anthony
  • Anthony Borrow
    Anthony Borrow
    Wed, 21 Aug 2013, 3:37 AM
    From a functional standpoint, this installs just fine but because of the issues above I am going to mark this plugin as needing some more work. I think the first thing to do is to straighten out the Github repositories (naming and merging fntabs with fntabs25 into a single repository with separate branches). Peace - Anthony
  • Fernando Oliveira
    Fernando Oliveira
    Tue, 3 Sept 2013, 12:35 AM
    Hi Anthony, text and repositories were updated as per your request. Please review when you can.
  • Anthony Borrow
    Anthony Borrow
    Thu, 5 Sept 2013, 4:27 AM
    Fernando - Thanks for working to tidy things up. I've retested and have approved this plugin. The only thing that was not obvious to me was how you want folks to report issues to you. The current link refers them to your website where I suppose they might register and post a comment. It might be more natural to use Github's issue system or Moodle Tracker - let me know what works best for you. Peace - Anthony
  • Anthony Borrow
    Anthony Borrow
    Thu, 5 Sept 2013, 5:45 AM
    I am unapproving this so that you can add the dependency you mentioned to the fn_tabs block. Peace - Anthony
  • Anthony Borrow
    Anthony Borrow
    Fri, 6 Sept 2013, 12:42 AM
    So I think you need to add the dependies to the version.php for the 2.4 version of the code. You may want to consider either adding 2.3 to this version or removing the 2.3 tag from the block so that there is consistency. Do you want to support a version for 2.3? If not just remove the 2.4 tag from the download file of the block. I do not think any changes need to be mae to the 2.5 version. Once we get the dependencies straighted out I think you should be good to go. Peace - Anthony
  • Anthony Borrow
    Anthony Borrow
    Fri, 6 Sept 2013, 6:02 AM
    There is now a 2.4 version of the course format that is dependent upon the block and vice versa. The 2.5 version does not have a dependency. I am going to go ahead and approve this. Peace - Anthony
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    Aparup Banerjee
    Tue, 10 Sept 2013, 12:03 PM
    Hi, just noting i saw '2.4' in $plugin->release inside version.php both the 2.4 and 2.5 zips.
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