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


Tiles

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.

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  • David Watson
    Fri, 19 Aug 2022, 12:13 AM
    Ed and Jose there is an open issue and a provisional fix for this which I should be able to release in the next couple of days once it's been tested: https://bitbucket.org/dw8/moodle-format_tiles/commits/4f4fb09a8b2e

    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.
  • ED ED
    Fri, 19 Aug 2022, 1:42 AM
    @David Watson : Thank you so much !!! It's solved problem with Moodle 4.0.2+ ! I'm so happy ;)
  • José Antonio Gómez Castellanos
    Fri, 19 Aug 2022, 9:57 AM
    Great work!
    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.
  • Sergio Renato Aldana Alvarez
    Tue, 23 Aug 2022, 4:56 AM
    Hello, how can I avoid tiles format rewrites .bade-info class, I found this css line: .format-tiles .sectiontitle::after, .format-tiles .badge-info {background-color: rgba(0,45,85, 1);} breaking all badge info boostrap classes
  • Elias Sfeir
    Sun, 28 Aug 2022, 9:58 PM
    Hello,
    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.
  • Pedro Verdejo
    Mon, 29 Aug 2022, 4:03 PM
    Hello,
    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.
  • Ey Marieb
    Wed, 31 Aug 2022, 2:19 PM
    There is an error when deleting a tile section. It says that "sectionactionnotsupported : Section action "deleteSection" is not supported here"
  • Admin Raíz PACTO
    Sat, 3 Sep 2022, 2:53 AM
    Hello,
    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
  • Edward Shih
    Sat, 3 Sep 2022, 3:33 AM
    Greetings, David and all,

    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.
  • Tomás TR
    Mon, 5 Sep 2022, 11:29 PM
    Good afternoon,
    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.
  • Thorsten Bieser
    Tue, 6 Sep 2022, 11:47 PM
    Hi There,
    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!!
  • Mike Wilday
    Thu, 8 Sep 2022, 12:57 AM
    We're testing the Beta version of tiles and we discovered a couple issues:
    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
  • Ozan Varli
    Tue, 13 Sep 2022, 5:12 PM
    With a clearer mind this morning, I could manage to apply the suggested fix for 4.0.3+ to make the activity/resource names visible again. If you want to try at your own risk, here it is:

    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!
  • Titus Development
    Wed, 14 Sep 2022, 10:51 PM
    In 4.0.0.3 we still see missing content for files activities, no description, icon, or activity names. Most other activities we've tested seem OK
  • Verena Witt
    Mon, 19 Sep 2022, 3:38 AM
    I have the same problem. Did you know at what time a fix will be available?
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