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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:
16759 sites
6k downloads
401 fans
Current versions available: 7
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 4.3 update (note updated 19 March 2024)
A stable release of "Tiles" for Moodle 4.3 is now available. Thanks to those who tested the betas and reported bugs using the bug tracker
The release:- includes a change to the way that tile photos and icons are stored in the database (during your own testing, please check that your Tile photos and icons are retained and report it if not)
- implements some new core features (course index and bulk editing tool)
- fixes the activity completion issue (Moodle 4.3)
- includes styling improvements to activity sub-tiles.
Moodle 4.0 - 4.2: These same improvements are available to Moodle 4.0 - 4.2 as beta releases and all being well these should be promoted to "stable" releases in March/April 2024.
Contributors
David Watson (Lead maintainer)
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The issue seems to have been introduced by a change to Moodle core in version 4.0.3, as a fix for https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-74800. Moodle version 4.0.2 is unaffected.
Thank you very much, David Watson.
I changed the code that you posted in commit 4f4fb09 and works great.
It was fixed and I don't find any problem till now.
We noticed the highlight menu item is not available in the edit mode of the setting menu of the tile, please support.
On another note, is there a way to hide all tiles in a course, like in a bulk way.
Thank you.
first to say, thanks very much for the fantastic job with the plugin. I use it in two installments and with Moodle 4.0.2 I found an issue with the show more button in restriction access options, as it is not really working: when you click it, the hidden content doesn't appear.
I thought it was because of the theme I am using, but I switched to Boost theme, and the issue persist. Hope you could fix it when the production version of the plugin is released. Thanks very much again.
I want to know how to configure the mosaic to look in a grid, because when installing the plugin it comes out list type and I can not find in the documentation how to do it. Although in the image that appears in the demo it is like this.
Thank you
I use Moodle 4.0.3. When I change the course format to tiles, the error shows up :
Exception - Class 'format_tiles_renderer' not found
I then can't go back to the course and it forces me to uninstall the tiles format. So, I can access my course again.
I appreciate the previous experience using the tiles format and hope this issue can be solved as soon as possible.
Thanks.
I have installed the Mosaics format in a moodle 4.0.
It seems to work fine, but the course resources are not visible.
It creates the "holes" of the resources but the name of the resource is not visible and the link does not work.
The Notices forum does not appear either.
we have upgraded to the last version and recieves the same error as mentioned above from Tomas: "It seems to work fine, but the course resources are not visible.
It creates the "holes" of the resources but the name of the resource is not visible and the link does not work.
The Notices forum does not appear either."
Because there are whole bunch of moodle instances affected a soon bugfix would be great!!
1. When editing is turned off... no activity icons or their links are displaying (we tasted using Boost and Boost Union themes).
2. When animated navigation is turned off, click on a tile, and turn editing on and we received the following error.
Exception - Argument 2 passed to format_tiles\output\courseformat\content\sectionnavigation::__construct() must be an instance of core_courseformat\output\local\content\sectionnavigation, int given, called in [dirroot]/course/format/classes/output/local/content.php on line 104
1. Go to the following directory: course/format/tiles/templates/local/content/cm
2. Edit the file "activity.mustache" by replacing lines "74-76" with the lines below using a text editor:
{{$ core_courseformat/local/content/cm/cmname }}
{{> core_courseformat/local/content/cm/cmname }}
{{/ core_courseformat/local/content/cm/cmname }}
(Source: https://bitbucket.org/dw8/moodle-format_tiles/src/4f4fb09a8b2ea04ebfe375568a888bd2098ebf71/templates/local/content/cm/activity.mustache#lines-74)
Hope this helps!