Grid Format

Course formats ::: format_grid
Maintained by Gareth J BarnardGareth J Barnard
A 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.
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Current versions available: 25

A 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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Gareth J Barnard
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  • Paul Neilson
    Sun, 26 Feb 2012, 5:28 PM
    Can you advise how to change the columns from 2 to 3 or 4 please, cracking piece of work and well done.
  • Benn Cass
    Mon, 5 Mar 2012, 10:19 PM
    Having a problem with @@PluginFile@@ for files when using Grid Format.... any help?
  • It's only an avatar...
    Sat, 10 Mar 2012, 11:18 PM
    Hi Julian,
    Can you explain to me why the version in the GITHUB is newer than the one in the plugins database? Both should be the same shouldn't they?
    This is the reason for having the plugin database in the first place isn't it?
  • Hari Rama
    Wed, 21 Mar 2012, 4:45 PM
    great plugins, grid work on my moodle 2.1
    but it cannot display image in topic section (pop up)
  • camilo agreda chamorro
    Sat, 24 Mar 2012, 11:19 PM
    the mod is broken
  • Vernon Spain
    Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 12:28 PM
    Works well Julian..Nice one.. I'm with Paul..3 columns would be awesome.
  • Vernon Spain
    Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 12:35 PM
    @ Paul...To change the number of containers is easy... Just go to the grid.css file and change the width. (See below). the original was 510 for 2 wide... You can play with it from there.
    }

    #iconContainer {
    width: 1000px;
    overflow: auto;
    padding: 0 0 50px 0;
    margin-left: 20px;
    margin-right: auto;
    }
  • Richard Ackland
    Mon, 26 Mar 2012, 5:37 PM
    I I love the look of this layout... it certainly makes a big course, much neater and more intuitive to use. Unfortunately i am still getting the PluginFile issue on all images in labels throughout the course.
    I am using Moodle 2.2.2+ and have downloaded the latest version of the format module. Hope this is fixed soon!
  • Chris Surtees
    Wed, 28 Mar 2012, 6:53 AM
    excellent format. works perfect using 2.2 (Build: 20111205). Love the pop-up for resources and the automatic 'new resource' banner
  • Toshihiro KITA
    Mon, 16 Apr 2012, 10:39 PM
    This is great. i love to use this format, but...
    http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200601
  • Ernesto Yannini
    Tue, 17 Apr 2012, 6:28 AM
    I cannot import from any course if i have the grid format installed in my site. Im getting this error: error/baseelementchildnameconflict
  • christian iraola
    Mon, 21 May 2012, 10:29 AM
    nothing happened, it's still in weekly outline, even though the selected course format is in GRID. Did i miss something? Pls help!
  • Rodrigo Filgueira
    Thu, 7 June 2012, 1:51 AM
    I'm also having problems with @@PLUGINFILE@@ in 2.2.2. Any ideas?
  • imbu danilot
    Wed, 20 June 2012, 5:25 AM
    Does anybody know if this issue reported at

    http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200601

    has been confirmed to be caused by the Grid format plugin and more importantly if it has been fixed?
  • Graham Clark
    Thu, 21 June 2012, 8:31 AM
    I really like the look and feel of this layout however the topic names we use are generally quite long. This means that the topic name is almost always chopped off. Is there some way to get the full name to show when you hover over the topic image and/or topic name? Thanks.
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