Course formats: Grid Format
Gareth J BarnardA modular and visual course format. Hides all topics and creates a grid of icons (one for each topic) with short titles. Clicking on an icon brings up the content from the corresponding topic in a "lightbox" style display.
Support:
The format comes with NO support. Please see the 'Support' section in 'Readme.md' file that comes with the format. This is because the format is complex and I regret that I don't have the time / resources to freely assist with questions pertaining to specific enhancements / changes / knowledge improvement.
I will investigate genuine bugs and issue fixes in a timescale set by myself. When reporting issues you MUST clearly state the full version and release of both Moodle and the Grid format format as contained within their 'version.php' files - if not it takes me longer to figure out, often resulting in me asking for the details anyway and slowing the process of solving your problem down. It really helps to upload and describe in detail the issue you are having on the 'Course formats' forum.
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More to follow as new icons have been added....
Privacy API support starts with V3.3.0.5 for M3.3 and V3.4.0.4 for M3.4 where the API has been implemented in the minor release of Moodle.
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is there a way to hide the hyphens that separate each activity and resources inside the sections?
Best regards, David
They are defined in the format's 'styles.css' file with the selector '#gridshadebox_content .activity'. Thus override that in a theme. And thus Dave, you're wrong!
Gareth
Best regards, David
I don't mean to sound negative because I really like this format and would like to use it but need to ensure accessibility for my students.
If you tell me that element X needs ARIA attribute Y then that can be a great help.
I have a moodle version 3.4.1 build (20180115) and when I hover on it it shows (2017111301), I tried to install format_grid version 3.4, but it didn't work ?
what version should I use, and excuse me as I am still beginner in moodle.
thanks..
Please post on https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=47 so we can work things through there.
G
Hope you can help with our query.
Moodle was upgraded in our site from 3.2 to 3.6 and therefore this plugin was also updated from the 3.2 version to 3.6.
Since the upgrade and update, accessing some of the courses in Grid course format gives the below error message and therefore the grid cannot be viewed;
'Cannot convert uploaded image to displayed image...'
Removing the section images from the course in the database helps resolve the issue, albeit the images need to be re-uploaded. With hundreds of courses, this would take too long to resolve one by one.
What would you suggest we do to resolve the issue for all courses?
Many thanks,
Fardin
I don't know why or how that it has happened. Can you tell me please:
The exact error in the php log file.
If for the given file in the files table with the given 'itemid' that there is or is not an 'image' entry of the same file name for the 'sectionid' in the 'format_grid_icon_table'.
How did you perform the upgrade? Did you transpose the database? Use the same database? Uninstall and reinstall Grid? What 'exact' process did you follow?
Did you perform a trial run of the upgrade on a test server first?
Please make a post with replies on the 'Courses and course formats' forum: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=47.
Depending on your answers might lead to a new custom script (which will take me some time to write) or another solution. But it all depends on the more information that you give me.
I cannot tell you want to do for the best at the moment without the new information.
Gareth
The php.log file does not show any error
Putting the site on debugging mode displays the following errors on the course page:
line 494 of /lib/setuplib.php: moodle_exception thrown
line 2302 of /course/format/grid/lib.php: call to print_error()
line 849 of /course/format/grid/renderer.php: call to format_grid->setup_displayed_image()
line 392 of /course/format/grid/renderer.php: call to format_grid_renderer->make_block_icon_topics()
line 257 of /course/format/grid/format.php: call to format_grid_renderer->print_multiple_section_page()
line 280 of /course/view.php: call to require()
We have only upgraded the test server and we haven't pushed it to live just yet until we have resolved all issues. We are using the same database. For the upgrade, Moodle was upgraded first and then the plugins updated individually. Nothing was uninstalled and then reinstalled.
Many thanks
Fardin
Thank you for the information, however I still require as requested originally:
If for the given file in the files table with the given 'itemid' that there is or is not an 'image' entry of the same file name for the 'sectionid' in the 'format_grid_icon' table.
Also when you did the upgrade first on Moodle, was the format installed at the time? If so, was this the old or new version? By 'same database' i.e. was the 'format_grid_icon' table always there.
If you did not uninstall / reinstall the format then how did you update it? What instructions did you follow?
And..... Please make a post with replies on the 'Courses and course formats' forum: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=47. - so not HERE!
Kind regards,
Gareth
Firstly thank you for your wonderful work!
I had a question about how Grid/Moodle handles the images for the Grids. Eg. I have a large 1920x1409 jpg image and I use it as a Grid image. Does the user download the full sized image each time they load the page or are they downloading a smaller resized jpg?
Cheers,
Phuong
The format takes the uploaded image and resizes it according to the settings.
G