Periods format

Course formats ::: format_periods

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Marina Glancy

This course format allows to set duration for each section (period) in days, weeks, months or years. Each individual section (period) may override this duration. The course settings allow automatically collapse or hide past or future periods.

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This course format allows to set duration for each section (period) in days, weeks, months or years. Each individual section (period) may override this duration.

The course settings allow automatically collapse or hide past or future periods. For the past periods it is possible to hide them from course view page but have each individual module still accessible through reports and/or gradebook. Also it is possible to hide past periods only if all activities in them are completed and show otherwise.

Current section is automatically highlighted.

Please note that this format takes advantage of the new feature introduced only in 2.8 (see MDL-46937), so it will not work properly on 2.7.

Related issues and discussions: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=268797 , MDL-47318 , MDL-47516

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Johan de Bruin
Sun, Jul 3, 2016, 3:11 PM
Can this format add the days to the calendar ? If not is there a format that can add the day's to the calendar ?
Marina Glancy
Mon, Jul 4, 2016, 12:30 PM
This sounds like a good suggestion. Please use github to report bugs and suggest imrpovements: https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-format_periods/issues
Marina Glancy
Fri, Jan 20, 2017, 11:52 AM
New version released for Moodle 3.0-3.2
Andréa Oliveira
Wed, Jun 7, 2017, 2:29 AM
Hi Marina,

My version moodle is 3.1.1 with conection sql server 2014. After installation, I went to test and gave 'error connecting to base' .... Can you help me, please?
Henri Brfr
Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 9:07 PM
Hello Marina,
It is great to have such skills contributor for expanding Moodle capabilities.
I have one question relative to your Periods Format plugin: Can students be enrolled for a certain time duration instead of calendar duration ? for example 3 hours max (whenever they login) instead of 2 weeks access ? Thanks a lot and compliments. HENRI
Felipe vera
Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 10:21 PM
Felicitaciones por el desarrollo, muy buen producto... Lo único que no he podido hacer, es mostrarles los periodos a los estudiantes.
Nilesh Pathade
Fri, Mar 30, 2018, 1:44 PM
Can you please help. How you get highlighted topics/day ??
Is there any function or SQL? to get highlighted topics or day.
Mark Pearson
Sun, Aug 5, 2018, 3:03 AM
Marina,
Version 3.3.1 is not available as a branch on git. V 3.3.0 is the 'main' branch. If you look at https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-format_periods you'll see that this is the case. Would you please update the 'main' branch with the minor update please? Thanks
Mark Pea
Jonathan Ruisánchez
Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 7:04 AM
Hi Marina, I too would like this format but with start date based on enrollment date. Will add to the bug trcker.

Rahul, Micah, Greicy - did you find any course formats that can do this?

Thanks, i was copy and paste the Mike message, because i dont speak a good english... sorry

Jon
Eric Breton
Fri, Apr 12, 2019, 10:38 PM
Hello, can you tell us if the plugin will support version 3.6 of Moodle in a near future ?
Angel Garcia
Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 11:54 PM
Hola! Marina Glancy , muchas gracias por excelente contribución... ¿habrá soporte para moodle 3.8, en un futuro?
Saludos!
Michael Milette
Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 2:36 AM
Has anyone tried this out with Moodle 3.9 or 3.10?
Michael Milette
Fri, Feb 5, 2021, 5:49 AM
Hi Marina, could you post the latest version on GitHub? I see that it is one version behind over there.
Sam Ben
Sat, Sep 11, 2021, 6:29 PM
Hello Marnia,
Is there a possibility to make the start date of the course dynamic relative to enrollement date (like the new feature in moodle's weekly format).

Thanks
Richard Samson
Sat, Jul 9, 2022, 12:53 AM
Marina, this plugin looks really good. Congratulations! Lots of our teachers would like a period-dependent course structure with configurable period lengths. It seems like your plugin does this handsomely.

Are you planning to create a version for Moodle 3.11 or Moodle 4.0?