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Multitopic format
Shows multiple topics per page, with tabbed navigation between pages. Topics are collapsible, and can optionally be timed.
If you like the Multitopic format, and use the latest version, please support the project by reporting any bugs you find.
Developed at Otago Polytechnic
Features
- Tabbed pages (like Onetopic format)
- Multiple topics per page (a bit like Flexible Sections format)
- Collapsible topics
- Optionally timed topics (like Weekly format)
- Course banner image (like Snap theme)
Install
- Copy files to moodle/course/format/multitopic
- Log in as an admin, and visit moodle/admin/index.php, to update plugin data
- For Moodle 3.x version, Site administration > Appearance > Additional HTML > Within HEAD (or other location appropriate for CSS): Copy and paste styles from README_styles.css (customising appropriately)
- Site administration > Appearance > Themes > Theme settings > Allow category themes: Yes (if you want categories to have custom CSS)
Video walkthrough
(You will probably need to open the video full screen to see it properly. Also it is a bit outdated, because topic collapsibility now has its own setting, and is no longer tied to the topic duration setting.)
Acknowledgements
The Multitopic format is based on ideas from several other course formats, and notably includes code copied from:
- Onetopic format by David Herney Bernal García (including code for displaying tabs, disabling asychronous editing, and managing settings)
- Periods format by Marina Glancy (code for managing settings)
Several patches have been submitted by Jeremy FitzPatrick, notably including nesting the course index, and supporting drag and drop in Moodle 4.x.
Improvements have also been made possible by all the people who have reported bugs.
Screenshots
Sorry, I don't remember having come across this before. Could you temporarily turn on debugging messages on the Moodle server, and see if anything shows up? This is under Site admin > Development > Debugging. Set Debug messages to DEVELOPER and Display debug messages ticked. Otherwise, if you private message me a login with access to a Moodle sandpit, and it turns out to be a CSS issue, I might be able to troubleshoot it.
Sorry, there's no function to duplicate a whole page. Functions that apply to whole pages require custom code, which may break and need to be fixed when new versions of Moodle are released, so I've just stuck to the minimum--hiding/showing and moving.
Sorry, I missed your post. There's no option for this, but you can revert it with some CSS. It's in the docs:
https://github.com/james-cnz/moodle-format_multitopic/wiki
on the page Plugin (for administrators)
I'm using this course format in a project. He's great! But I need to know how I can remove the text that appears just below the top image.
Example: image files by.....
You should be able to remove the banner attribution site-wide with some CSS. It could go under Site admin > Appearance > Additional HTML > Within HEAD, inside some opening and closing HTML style tags, and would be something like this:
body.format-multitopic #course-header #course-header-banner_attribution {
display: none;
}
If you do put the CSS in the Within HEAD field, be careful to correctly close the HTML style tag, as an unclosed HTML tag in this field may cause the Moodle site to become inaccessible.
Right! I coded exactly but I didn't get the expected result. Should I include the code somewhere else?
Thank you very much for the tip!
Renato
You could instead try putting it in your theme settings. In Moodle 4.x at least, it could go under:
Site admin > Appearance > Themes > [settings for the theme you use] > Advanced settings > Raw SCSS
(I don't have access to a Moodle 3.x server at the moment to see if it has the same option in the same place.)
found a bug like have added more then 7 topics in which the last 2 are only visible when the 3rd last is clicked . how can i resolve it
Sorry, there's not much I can do, unless I can see the issue. Are you able to e-mail me a backup of the course, with instructions for replicating the issue?
My e-mail address is jeg@cloudy.kiwi.nz .
It's been resolved .It was due to my local plugin issue .
thnks for the response
define role-> permisssion
witch setting allows you to edit the tab name in the course ??
when i login as aadministrator i can edit, when i logged as editingteacher i cannot ( dont see edit button)
?
I think the permission you need is Update course settings (moodle/course:update).