Grid Format

Course formats ::: format_grid

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Gareth 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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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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Ben James
Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 12:03 AM
Hello Gareth,

Are you able to provide a fix for this for Moodle 3.5 too please? Happy to chat about possibilities.

Thanks,
Ben
Gareth J Barnard
Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 12:09 AM
Hi Ben,

? I'm confused as I cannot provide a fix in a course format for activity navigation when it is a core / theme thing as stated in the post above: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=379405#p1529643. So what fix?

G
Ben James
Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 12:27 AM
Hi Gareth

Thanks for your quick response. Sorry, I was a bit vague in my previous post.

We use the Collapsed Topics format heavily in our Moodle instance and I see you've provided an update/patch to that course format which enables the subpage plugin to continue to work correctly (this is the bit I forgot to mention earlier!)

Is it possible that there could be a patch for the Grid format too?

Thanks,
Ben
Gareth J Barnard
Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 12:46 AM
Hi Ben,

Nope I'm sure I did not in CT. Still really none the wiser about what you're talking about, please could you be really 'really' specific.

Gareth
Alistair Spark
Thu, 31 Jan 2019, 2:18 AM
Hi Gareth,

Ben is referring to https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topcoll/issues/39
https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topcoll/commit/cd3d9f40738dbd7f63b9ff189c35f2a775d36908
https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topcoll/commit/fae6abd64c3676f505e009b1ed1c747e9b504d89

I'll put you two in touch by email this evening.

Thanks
Alistair
Shadab Uddin Mohammed
Tue, 19 Feb 2019, 11:30 AM
Greetings,
In Moodle 3.4.... using lamda theme....."Fit the section popup to the window" is set to "Yes" is not showing the section popup content clearly.....dark grey layer is coming on it.
Any help....
Gareth J Barnard
Tue, 19 Feb 2019, 8:17 PM
Dear Shadab,

The Lamda is a commercial theme, therefore nothing I can do about this. Please contact their support.

G
Brian Rigwald
Mon, 4 Mar 2019, 11:28 PM
I've been using Grid Format for years. Maybe I've missed it, but what is the gold highlight around the first section/unit? Is that something that can be turned off? It seems separate from the regular colored line highlight that you can turn on in the section settings. My students always see it and think that means we are in that unit. (I know, they should know better, hehehe.)

Thanks!
Gareth J Barnard
Tue, 5 Mar 2019, 12:27 AM
Gold highlight? What gold highlight?
Brian Rigwald
Tue, 5 Mar 2019, 8:48 PM
You can see it around the first section ("G") in the screenshots above. If I select Highlight in the section settings, I get the purple line/box around the unit/section.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xDdiA9yoY973D2Y3j1YluaMGEdDCRvmD
Gareth J Barnard
Wed, 6 Mar 2019, 1:38 AM
That's the 'current selected image container colour' to indicate which section will be displayed when the Esc key is pressed or the Enter key when tab or shift tab has been used to focus a given grid section. The colour can be changed but the functionality not turned off without code changes.
Brian Rigwald
Wed, 6 Mar 2019, 1:58 AM
Thanks. I knew about the color change, but didn't know if there was a setting to turn it off. Thanks.
David Zapata
Sun, 10 Mar 2019, 8:12 AM
Hi Gareth,
is there a way to hide the hyphens that separate each activity and resources inside the sections?

Best regards, David
Dave Foord
Sun, 10 Mar 2019, 4:19 PM
David Zapata - the hyphens that separate each activity are created by the theme not the course format e.g. this is nothing to do with the Grid Format. I know that the Adaptable theme allows you to remove them, and I regularly do, not sure about other themes.
Gareth J Barnard
Sun, 10 Mar 2019, 8:45 PM
Hi 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