Tiles format

Course formats ::: format_tiles
Maintained by David Watson
A course format which displays course topics as "Tiles", in a grid rather than as a list. When clicked, tile content is displayed under the tile with an animated transition. The layout adapts to different screen sizes and orientations. Within each tile, activities can also be set to display as "sub-tiles". For each tile, the teacher can pick an icon from a predefined set, or upload a background photo.
Latest release:
16445 sites
5k downloads
379 fans
Current versions available: 5
Key features
  • Tiles are used to show course topics and activities
  • Animation is used to expand tiles to reveal content
  • Icons or photos on each tile increase visual appeal
  • Modal windows (animated pop ups) to show content
  • Colours for tiles are customisable
  • Theme compatibility is broad (Boost, Clean, Essential, Moove and Adaptable).
  • Easy to switch into Tiles from other formats (e.g. Topics, Grid) without changing course content
  • User friendly (e.g. tile icons are provided and don't need to be uploaded)
  • Mobile responsive (adapts to different screen sizes and orientations)
  • Progress shown on tile with % in a circle, or as a fraction


Tiles
Moodle 4.0+ update:  The stable release for Moodle 4.0 and 4.1 is now available.  Work will continue on issues raised, and a further release is expected not later than the end of April 2023.  (Message updated 13 February 2023).

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David Watson (Lead maintainer)
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  • Carlos Kiyan Tsunami
    Wed, 12 Jul 2023, 10:50 PM
    There is a start shape icon linked with a Moodle quiz activity. That is the only icon I have edited the file inside the folder plugin name "subtitle", and the changes are not displayed. Does anybody know how to customize it?
  • Luiggi Sansonetti
    Fri, 21 Jul 2023, 8:54 PM
    Hi

    I confirm there is a bug with scroll
    https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=447483

    I made an issue, but it's still in "submitted" status...
  • Miguël Dhyne
    Mon, 24 Jul 2023, 6:43 AM
    Hello,
    This plugin is very popular with teachers. Thank you for ensuring its development.
    However, for the Moodle 4.2 version, I seem to encounter a problem when I want to make a bulk modification. The tab does not appear at the bottom of the page.
    Thank you in advance for your help.
    Best regards,
    Miguël
  • Louise
    Fri, 28 Jul 2023, 8:35 PM
    Hi,

    Is there any update re. the scrolling issue? I'm testing it on 4.1 - click on the tile to open the section, but then clicking to use the scrollbar on the right closes the section again, meaning the content can't be viewed. Whereas on our 3.11 site, the scroll bar works allowing to move down the page/section. Same behaviour on both Edge and Chrome.
  • Pascal Schärli
    Tue, 15 Aug 2023, 4:10 AM
    Great courseformat. Love it! One problem with Moodle 4.2: If you duplicate an activity like url the actionbuttons not appear. After relouding page it works fine. Would it be possible to fix that with the next update? I use PHP8.1.
  • Peter Jonker
    Wed, 16 Aug 2023, 8:12 PM
    Hello, as from Moodle 4.2 and also backported to 4.0 and 4.1, Topics and Weekly format have indentation of activities again. We would really also like to see that in Tiles. Is that something you are planning to integrate?
  • Sandra Janisch
    Tue, 5 Sep 2023, 10:22 PM
    Hello!
    I have a problem with the bulk modification too. It is not possible to close the bulk modification with "X".
    Thank you for your help.
    Best regards
    Sandra
  • Mark Lyndon
    Wed, 6 Sep 2023, 2:19 AM
    Hi,
    I'm trying to use this plugin in it's most basic form and I'm disabling the javascript globally in admin so tiles/topics then open in their own pages, but then finding users are then unable to navigate courses fully using only a keyboard.
    Additionally, another +1 vote for including the course index.
    Kind regards,
    Mark
  • Blair F.
    Wed, 6 Sep 2023, 5:05 AM
    Can anyone provide any clues regarding my post of Thu, Feb 2, 2023, 7:54 AM showing an unexpected token error? I just don't know enough to be able to troubleshoot this.
  • Nathalie De Filippo
    Mon, 25 Sep 2023, 3:18 PM
    Hi,
    Any news about the upgrade of format_tiles running in php 8.1, I still have some deprecated function.
    I'm using moodle 4.1.5+ and the version of Format_tiles is 4.1.0.2 (2023030500).
    Thanks in advance.
  • Christian Stickel
    Mon, 9 Oct 2023, 9:39 PM
    The navigation bar of the bulk edit feature is not available when using the tiles format. We are on Moodle 4.2.2 with Tiles 4.2.0.1
  • Miki Alliel
    Mon, 23 Oct 2023, 3:56 PM
    Hello. how can I simply disable the pop up "Data preference" which keep displayed each time I enter to the course , even if I click "yes" to remember. thank you
  • Marta Lopes
    Thu, 23 Nov 2023, 3:49 AM
    Estou usando a versão Moodle 4.3 e estou aguardando a versão do formato tiles que seja compatível , pois o status (concluido, pendente) das atividades não aparecem.
  • Daniel Burkhard
    Wed, 29 Nov 2023, 4:56 AM
    I use the tile format for our courses. If the first tile is an image file, it opens in fullscreen, taking the user "out" of the main course interface. I noticed that instead of navigating to https://my.moodle.project/resource/view.php?id=xy, an "&redirect=1" is appended. This causes the image in fullscreen to be loaded as if it's "in the application."
    Does anyone have an idea on how to suppress the "&redirect=1" or identify which setting might be incorrect?
  • Joachim Birke
    Thu, 7 Dec 2023, 6:00 AM
    Hi, I installed a new moodle 4.3 instance and tried Version tile format 4.2.0.1.
    There is a problem while displaying the activity completion in all fields: The button is visible in course edit mode. But when disabeling edit mode the activity completion button/field is hidden.
    The functionality in other course formats works fine, so it must be a problem in tiles format.
    In Moodle 4.1 it worked fine.
    By the way: When opening a single activity the button is visible in the head of the activity, functional and activity can be changed.
    Even the activity progres bar in the tile works when calling the course.
    It may be just a problem of visibility when clicking on a tile and show the activities as a list.
    Switching the course format e.g. to weekly format -> all buttons are visible as recommended...
    Thank you for solving the problem in the next version!
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