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
Assuming adequate funding, Is it possible to create a version of this course format that works in the Moodle Mobile app?
No idea.
Gareth
Appearance is subjective to the eye of the beholder. You could try using CSS to achieve this.
Gareth
I updated our platforms to Moodle 4.1 and with boost theme and format topcoll enabled there is no left drawer with the navigation nor a button on the left side. All activity icons are black. In editing mode the activity icons have colours but also no courseindex. I compared the html of the course/view.php with and without topcoll enabled and there is no drawer-left only drawer-right.
Katja
Sound like you've broken your site. 99% sure its not Collapsed Topics. I don't provide one to one support for free, thus will only help you if paid to do so. If you wish to post in the courses and course formats forum, then you're free to do so.
Kind regards,
Gareth
One thing we're noticing in the latest version of the plugin (4.0.1.1) and moodle version 4.1 is that there is a discrepancy in the display between the top topic (section zero) of a course using top_coll and all the rest of the content sections on the page. The padding around the icons and text is just a lot wider in section zero. We're feeling that some of our users might want to have the 'shorter', more compact look that top_coll provides so having that displayed consistently would be welcome. Is that on your roadmap?
Thanks,
Dave
We are on Moodle 4.1 and having an issue with the Collapsed Topics 401.0.1. In our courses we have the activity completion set to show when an activity certain criterion are met. The completion check boxes have disappeared. When we rolled the plugin back to 3.10 on our test site the check boxes reappeared. Is this something with the new plugin for Moodle 4.1?
Thanks,
Rich
Collapsed Topics does not do anything with activity completion bar show what the core functionality tells it.
G
Fix 'Indentation changes do not show until page refresh' - related to #126.
However, we're experiencing it with version Version 401.1.0 in Moodle 4.1.4.
Is anyone else experiencing this?
They are set to white because the toggle section background default colour is set to blue, being #1177d1.
Gareth
This is a wonderful plugin with too many good settings. I have used it for many years; in Moodle 3.11 it was fine with no issues; now I installed in Moodle 4.1 & Moodle 4.3, each with it's own version of the plugin, but in both columns are only show in 2 columns even if I change the setting to anything else, tried with resetting everything, but did not work at all.
Is these anything I can do to fix it?
On the other hand, how possible is to make a section has the column setting, so that one section for example may have 2 columns and another section may have 1 column and so on.
Also when referring to another course format under structure, could it be possible to an addition that allows using another course format other than the default? As when installing another course format.
Thanks,
If its restricted to two columns then likely you're viewing the course on a mobile / tablet device. The format detects and enforces a max of two columns.
Section column setting = difficult.
Gareth