Jump To Navigation

Blocks ::: block_jumpto_menu
Maintained by Me !Tim Williams
Adds a Moodle 1.x style "Jump To" menu to Moodle 2.x

Jump To Navigation 2014090501

Moodle 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7
Released: Saturday, 6 September 2014, 1:00 AM
Jump To Menu Block
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This block has been provided by Tim Williams (tmw@autotrain.org) at AutoTrain eLearning

This block will provide a 'jump to' menu within Moodle 2.x, similar to that used by Moodle 1.x (much of the code
has been borrowed from 1.x). Install the block as normal by copying the contents of this download
into the moodle/blocks directory.

Once installed, the block can operate in a number of different ways :

1) By default, the block will use some clever javascript to display the jump to menu below the login/out link,
while hiding the actual block on the page when not in editing mode. If you place the block on a part of the page
with no other blocks, you will probably find that you get an empty column. Users without javascript will see the
menu inside a normal Moodle block.
2) If you prefer to have the menu displayed inside a normal Moodle block, then change the global config setting
"Show menu below login/logout link" (see Site Administration>Plugins>Blocks>Jump To Navigation)
3) If you want the menu to appear on content pages which can't display blocks (eg framed HTML), or would prefer
not to use javascript to place the menu, then you will need to modify your layout templates in order to display
the Jump to Menu in the correct place. You can find out how to do this by looking at the instructions on
http://www.autotrain.org/misc/source/moodle2/jump_to/
4) Moodle 2.7 users will probably need to adjust there theme in order to prevent the expanded page header from
cutting off the top part of your page. Putting somethign like:

#page {
margin-top:10px;
}

Into the themes custom.css does the trick for us.

Version information

Version build number
2014090501
Version release name
2014090501
Maturity
Stable version
MD5 Sum
9aab334abe8876612b19171ba7ebdf20
Supported software
Moodle 2.3, Moodle 2.4, Moodle 2.5, Moodle 2.6, Moodle 2.7

Default installation instructions for plugins of the type Blocks

  1. Make sure you have all the required versions.
  2. Download and unpack the block folder.
  3. Place the folder (eg "myblock") in the "blocks" subdirectory.
  4. Visit http://yoursite.com/admin to complete the installation
  5. Turn editing on in any home or course page.
  6. Add the block to the page
  7. Visit the config link in the block for more options.