Topic Forums course format

Course formats ::: format_forumtopic
Maintained by ca2si Etan
Topic Forums course format adds forums below the topic sections of the Onetopic course format. Each topic has its own discussion forum.
Latest release:
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Current versions available: 1

The course topic sections are displayed one at a time. Students navigate this structure through tabs at the top or a drop down list at the bottom.

Below each topic section is the social forum that belongs to the section. These forums are a great place to engage students in social learning. The forum post are immediately visible, without the need to click a forum link within the topic.

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ca2si Etan (Lead maintainer)
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  • Beto Castillo Llaque
    ti, 22. marrask. 2011, 02.18
    When I logged as a Guest (moodle 2.1.2+), is not posible to change topics (tabs) , It seems a permissions issue . May you guide me how to resolve it ?
  • Thomas Alsén
    ti, 22. marrask. 2011, 04.32
    Hi,
    I couldn't rename the tab names in Moodle 2.1.2 so I replaced line 108 in format.php
    from
    $sectionname = get_section_name($course, $thissection);
    to
    if(empty ($thissection->name))
    $sectionname = get_section_name($course, $thissection);
    else
    $sectionname = $thissection->name;

    And can now change the tab names.
  • Sun
    ke, 18. tammik. 2012, 18.22
    The course format has been translated into Russian language and fixed some issues (especially in grid format). Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/51246684/format.zip
  • P H
    la, 28. tammik. 2012, 04.10
    It would be a big plus if we can choose the kind of forum (Single Simple Discussion, for example) and name it as we wish,
  • Matt Jenner
    la, 28. tammik. 2012, 22.24
    if I wanted to swap out the forum for another activity, say for example a wiki or a database is this a simple procedure? I' looking at the code and it's not obviously clear (at the moment). Any help would be appreciated.
  • Chris Gibson
    ma, 6. helmik. 2012, 17.24
    We're evaluating several themes on the same install. This uses the same function names as the onetopic format, meaning the cron job failed with this error : PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare callback_onetopic_uses_sections() (previously declared in /moodle/course/format/forumtopic/lib.php:32) in /moodle/course/format/onetopic/lib.php on line 33
  • Mathew Hillier
    pe, 8. maalisk. 2013, 17.02
    note: this course format does not work with moodle 2.3+.
  • Gareth J Barnard
    pe, 17. toukok. 2013, 01.08
    Hi,

    Is there any intent to update this format to Moodle 2.2, 2,3, 2.4 and 2.5?

    Cheers,

    Gareth
  • Gonzalo de SuperMagister.top
    ma, 14. elok. 2017, 09.26
    Hello, the plugin is very good, and I use it for my courses.
    There are only two drawbacks I have found and causes me much trouble:
    -- Sometimes I need to change the format of the course to test something or to draw items to another section. When I do this all the proprieties of each section are deleted. It should be very good if this information were stocked somewhere and restored when I swich back to tabs format.
    -- It's very ennoying that I can't draw items from one section to another.
    I hope it could be hepful. Thanks and regards.
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