Moodle plugins directory: Tiles format
Tiles format
Course formats ::: format_tiles
Maintained by 
David Watson
David WatsonA 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:
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367 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
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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Every time I update the moodle version I have to reinstall the format tiles, the contents of each tile disappear and they are all stored in the general tab, for this reason I have to manually put the content back in its corresponding tile, is there a way to avoid this?
Greetings
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...
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
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.
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
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
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.