Ludic

Course formats ::: format_ludic
Maintained by Daniel Miller, Céline Hernandez, Adrien Jamot, Team Edunao
LUDIC presents course structure and contents graphically. A range of gamification options are also provided to strengthen student engagement.

Ludic 3.5.6

Moodle 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11
Released: Friday, 12 November 2021, 5:19 PM

LUDIC course format : Release Notes

3.5.6 - 2021-11-12

FIXED

  • Fixed display of activity tiles in section view to use 'contain' and not 'cover' background image size
  • Fixed display of tiles to not alllow overflow (eg of text) outside the tile perimeter (which previously caused invisible space around text to overlap completion checkboxes making them unclickable)
  • CSS configuration for fixed image section skins was not applied
  • Comments of the form /* ... */ in CSS configurations were incorrectly handled when composing course and section view pages.
  • Useful links menu included course modules even if they were hidden (and so inaccessible).
  • Fixed fill of missing steps, score evaluation and edit image of cm_achievement skin
  • Fixed score evaluation of cm_score skin
  • Updated abc skin default value to have more beautiful number displayed

CHANGED

  • Improved the behaviour of fixed image section type to not include the image at the top of the section page (to only include it in the course overview page)
  • Improved the default paramaters of the "ABC grade" skin to provide scores in the ratio of 50:75:100 for the C, B and A grades respectively (the settings were previously 33:66:100)
  • Useful links menu no longer displays course sections if there is only one section in the course
  • Usefule links menu, and the associated header bar, are no longer displayed if the menu would be empty

ADDED

  • Double click on course module tiles in editing views now goes tot he course module (like a single click would in student view)

3.5.5 - 2021-11-10

FIXED

  • Fixed backup/restore and cm/section duplication
  • Fixed a glitch on the single-section page appareance which sometimes included a small blank rectangle at the top of the page
  • Fixed score and progress display to round numbers to nice values
  • Fixed custom skin background position

ADDED

  • Add French lang file

3.5.4 - 2020-12-16

FIXED

  • Section titles were echoed directly without filtering (github issue #1)
  • Checking capabilities rather than roles

3.5.3 - 2020-11-14

CHANGED

  • The section image in student section view pages now acts as a link back to the course overview page
  • The calculation of score thresholds for the section score skin has been updated to work on the same basis as the section progress skin
  • The calculation of cash for the section avatar skin has been updated to work on the same basis as the section progress skin
  • The section Avatar skin inventory display has been reworked

FIXED

  • The text in the section score display didn't scale correctly on the overview page
  • Remaining cash was not updated correctly after purchasing an item in the avatar skin
  • Word-wrap default setting was no-wrap for inline content
  • Section summary text was displayed incorrectly in student section view screens

NOTE

  • All skin configurations are reset with the installation of this update

3.5.2 - 2020-11-05

ADDED

  • New ACHIEVEMENT course module skin type added
  • Special student view mode added for single section courses
  • Added rocket-story section skin
  • Added discrete grade-based score activity skin

CHANGED

  • The editor widget for setting weight values for course module instances is now a free text value
  • The PROGRESSION section skin now exposes a 'target' value that can be set on a per-instance basis
  • A few tweeks were made to improve page layout in different places

FIXED

  • Fix behavior of course editing toggle, removing student view button that had side effects

3.5.1 - 2020-10-07

ADDED

  • Support for Moodle 3.9 - fixing issue with new resource and activity selection popup

CHANGED

  • Size of section in editiong mode => 2x smaller
  • Scroll system in editing mode to allow fuller use of whole screen for course content
  • Default section type is now PROGRESS not FIXED IMAGE
  • Default content type is now ACHIEVEMENET (a new type) not FIXED IMAGE
  • Display of skin in form pane in edito mode now includes the skin name and description
  • Non-ludic skin types have been re-classified as default user skins instead of system skins making them user-editable
  • The default fixed image skins (that were only there to serve as a basic example) have been removed as the non-ludic skins now cover thie purpose
  • Clean code

FIXED

  • It was possible to inject HTML via CSS properties in skin definitions
  • It is no longer possible to delete default skins in the skins editor

3.5.0 - 2020-09-30

  • Initial version submitted to Moodle.org for publication, Supporting Moodle 3.5 to 3.8

Version information

Version build number
2021111100
Version release name
3.5.6
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
99686ad9660eab48fced5907dee1c52f
Supported software
Moodle 3.5, Moodle 3.6, Moodle 3.7, Moodle 3.8, Moodle 3.9, Moodle 3.10, Moodle 3.11
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.5
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.6
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.7
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.8
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.9
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.10
  • Latest release for Moodle 3.11

Version control information

Version control system (VCS)
GIT
VCS repository URL

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Course formats

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the module.
  3. Place the folder (eg "myformat") in the "course/format" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to finish the installation