Moodle plugins directory: Collapsed Topics | Moodle.org
Collapsed Topics
An interchangeable topic or week (day for 2.3.1+) based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics / weeks. All sections except zero have a toggle that displays that section. One or more sections can be displayed at any given time. Toggles are persistent on a per browser session per course basis but can be made to persist longer by a small code change. Full installation instructions, code adapt-ions and credits are included in the 'Readme.md' file.
If you have a course with more than fifty two sections then currently the toggle persistence will not work for the fifty third section and above. Then you need to upgrade to the Moodle 2.5 version+.
Support:
The format comes with NO support. Please see the 'Support' section in 'Readme.md' file that comes with the format. This is because the format is complex and I regret that I don't have the time / resources to freely assist with questions pertaining to specific enhancements / changes / knowledge improvement.
I will investigate genuine bugs and issue fixes in a timescale set by myself. When reporting issues you MUST clearly state the full version and release of both Moodle and the Collapsed Topics format as contained within their 'version.php' files - if not it takes me longer to figure out, often resulting in me asking for the details anyway and slowing the process of solving your problem down. It really helps to read the 'Reporting Issues' section in the 'Readme.md' file and upload and describe in detail the issue you are having on the 'Course formats' forum.
Book:
NEW: 'The Complete Guide to Collapsed Topics' (and 'Blurb') book is now available, covering: installation, upgrade, uninstallation, course and global features, resetting, capabilities, language strings, overriding icons / styles in a theme and adding a new icon set.
NOTE: The latest version incorporates functionality to support new UK / EU Cookie Law which is implemented as a user acceptance in the 1.9 version and no 'cookie' is used at all in 2.x versions.
Screen casts:
Privacy API support starts with V3.3.1.2 for M3.3 and V3.4.0.2 for M3.4 where the API has been implemented in the minor release of Moodle.
Screenshots
I wish there was a good, supported way to have collapsible sub-sections within a course, perhaps by using indentation levels of content.... (And I wish I were a better Moodle programmer, while I'm wishing....)
The closest format would be 'Flexible sections' but that does not have tabs. Conceptually it would be possible to make this happen, but it would be a lot of work.
Cheers,
Gareth
I am happy to announce this plugin has been just featured in our Plugins traffic blog. Well done Gareth! https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=323007#p1296838
How do I change language settings? I would like to change language or alternatively hide "Open all" and "Close all"
Many thanks for your support !!!
Stefano
As Collapsed Topics is in the plugins database then the English language strings will appear in AMOS (https://docs.moodle.org/dev/AMOS_manual?redirect=no) and thus anybody who signs up for an account there can go in and translate them. Then the translated strings will appear in the language packs and I assume there is some way of updating them.
To hide 'Open all' / 'Close all', comment out this line: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topcoll/blob/master/renderer.php#L628
Cheers,
Gareth
Is there something else that we need to do for the update to work properly? Or perhaps is this a problem others have seen?
Thanks much..... Brian
I don't know, I've raised: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topcoll/issues/21
Cheers,
Gareth
The section titles are working for me in both the M2.7 and M3.0 versions - they are the toggle headings after all. Please post screen-shots on: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=47 with full details of the theme you are using.
Kind regards,
Gareth
I hope this makes sense and is helpful. Please let me know if it would still be a good idea for me to submit this to the forum.
Thanks... Brian
I've scowered the code and none of the supplied defaults are white. So I don't understand why you are setting them all to white. What was the previous version of Collapsed Topics please? As these settings have been in place for ages and do control the colour of the section title and hence when you do change to Topics they go back to that of the theme setting.
I'll have another look tomorrow and double check.
No need for a post yet.
Kind regards,
Gareth
When we installed the Collapsed Topics format a couple months ago, we changed the following options to #FFFFFF (sorry if I wasn't clear here earlier):
Toggle foreground color
format_topcoll | defaulttgfgcolour
Toggle foreground hover colour
format_topcoll | defaulttgfghvrcolour
Toggle background color
format_topcoll | defaulttgbgcolour
Toggle background hover color
format_topcoll | defaulttgbghvrcolour
And Toggle all icon hovers was set to YES
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I see what you mean when you asked why we set them all to white. That doesn't make sense. Even though these are set to white, when running the previous version of Collapsed Topics, the section titles are actually not white (that's probably why we didn't dwell on the default color settings). They are using the color from our custom theme (note that if I switch the theme to the Clean theme, the titles do go white; when I switch back to our custom theme, the titles are visible again, using our the color from our theme). It's only after installing the updated Collapsed Topics do the titles go to white.
I think it's interesting, using the previous version and before installing the update, the section title color was essentially ignoring the course format's settings and instead used our custom theme's color setting. It's only after installing the upgrade does it all sort itself out.... the format's color settings are respected. So I suppose there isn't anything necessarily wrong with the course format. We will have to update the default color settings (i.e. don't use white for text).
Does this make sense? I apologize if I led you down the wrong path, trying to find an error where one doesn't exist.
Thanks... Brian
Thank you for the information.
A recent fix: https://github.com/gjb2048/moodle-format_topcoll/commit/3cd8a1d0641419158d76a11a6725329d7e1a6b02 caused the incorrect data to manifest itself.
Kind regards,
Gareth