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:
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Current versions available: 8
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
 
 
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Contributors

David Watson (Lead maintainer)
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  • Eskilled Jam
    Thu, 23 June 2022, 11:16 AM
    Thank you so much for this plugin, it looks neat! We have one issue though when using theme lambda, turn editing on a course - edit button overlaps with the manually activity completion button, do we have a way to fix this?
  • Al
    Mon, 27 June 2022, 5:46 AM
    Hi, please could you update the supported version number for moodle to moodle 4. This means that each week when we update moodle, the extension will automatically install. Currently, you have to install it manually which takes time. Thank you so much.
  • Stergios Kyanidis
    Fri, 1 July 2022, 11:16 PM
    Hi, thank you very much for this plugin! I was wondering if there is a way to open a file or a link in a pop-up window if animated navigation is deactivated. I have noticed that even in your demo site these kind of resources open in the same window. Tnank you.
  • Emmanuel Remy
    Sat, 2 July 2022, 2:13 PM
    Hi,
    Great to have the new version of your plugin! Thanks! No more php error in log!

    However (sorry), the width of the content no more fits the width of the page as it used to be with the previous version (I'm using the LearnR theme). I've tried width fittilestowidth checked or unchecked and haven't seen any change by using this item. It seems as the tile plugin overrides the LearnR setting (fullwidthpage).

    Thanks.
    Emmanuel
  • Ute Heck
    Sun, 3 July 2022, 3:59 PM
    Hi David,
    we are very happy, that it will be possible to use tiles with moodle 4.0. But I have one question. A special feature of moodle 4.0. is the course index. Is it correct, that with the course format Tiles there will be no course index? Or are you working on this issue?

    Thanks
    Ute
  • Elias Sfeir
    Sun, 10 July 2022, 8:56 PM
    Hi David,
    Thank you for your support. We tried the beta version, one thing was not working which was the "Mark as done" button for the activity completion.

    Thank you.
  • Pável Montero Fitó
    Fri, 15 July 2022, 11:15 PM
    Please how can I remove the space between the activity and the activity description?
  • Simon Taylor
    Mon, 18 July 2022, 6:36 PM
    Hi, A great looking plugin but is there any way to bring the burger menu back to show the course content list on the left of the screen?
  • Richard Hind
    Mon, 18 July 2022, 11:14 PM
    Hi - Fantastic plugin that we use extensively! Question for future use/abilities: will it be possible to group tiles at the top level with headings/labels between? So rather than x amount of tiles in a grid, we can break them at a higher level into sections. Happy to eloborate if this is not enough details.
  • Alexander Lebeth
    Sat, 23 July 2022, 3:12 PM
    Thanks for this great plugin!
    Could someone please point out, WHEN the data preference setting (which is stored in browsers local storage under the key "mdl-tiles-userPrefStorage-user-[id]") is deleted? Since it's not a cookie but a local storage object, there's no expiration date — so there has to be a mechanism in the code that deletes the key and its values.
    Would be glad to know about the scheduling/trigger-events, that delete the local storage object!
  • Alexis Morand
    Tue, 26 July 2022, 8:18 PM
    Hi David,
    First, thanks for the plugin.
    I have few questions. (Moodle 4.0 / Moove theme)
    1) Will we have the course index with the tiles on the V4.0 ?
    2) Will it be possible to change the size of the pop up that shows the content (it's really small for the pages for example)
    3) Will it be possible to have all activities opening as pop up ? (some like feedback, h5p open in a new page so we loose the benefits of the tiles)

    Also I notice a small bug on the new version, if we scroll outside of the tiles, it doesn't work (or we have to close de tiles first). (it was working for the previous versions)
    Thanks
  • Elias Sfeir
    Sun, 31 July 2022, 5:49 PM
    Hi David,
    Thank you for your support.
    We are running Moodle 4.0 with the Remui Edwiser theme, the course index is not showing with the tiles, if we can know when can we expect an updated version.
    For as i noticed from all the recent comments, users are asking as well for the course index.

    Thank you.
  • iec digital
    Mon, 15 Aug 2022, 12:42 PM
    NEED HELP I HAVE THIS ERROR
    Excepción - Class 'format_tiles_renderer' not found

    Más información sobre este error
  • ED ED
    Thu, 18 Aug 2022, 12:12 AM
    Hello,
    I tested this plugin with Moodle 4.0 : ok. I upgraded to Moodle 4.0.2+ : ko. When I click on tiles, I see only sections names but content is empty. Someone got same problem with moodle 3.9, but solution has not been published. Someone can help me ? Thanks !
  • José Antonio Gómez Castellanos
    Thu, 18 Aug 2022, 9:33 PM
    Hello.
    The same thing happened to me as to ED ED.
    I have moodle version 4.0.2+ and when I updated this plugin to version 4.0.0.3 Beta, the tiles look well but when we click on a tile we cannot see the text of the activities and therefore the students can not enter to do the activities.
    Note: In edit mode we can see the text of the activities.
    By the way, it's a great plugin for moodle. I hope it can be fixed soon.
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