Flexible sections format

Course formats ::: format_flexsections
Maintained by Marina Glancy
Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed on the same page or on a separate page

Flexible sections format 2.8.4 for Moodle 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.1

Mary Cooch
Mary Cooch
Friday, 16 September 2016, 6:10 PM
General comments
The Flexible sections course format is exactly what it says it is: it allows teachers to customise the display of individual course sections, adding subsections, nesting sections within others and selecting some to display expanded and some collapsed.It solves a problem some teachers have with a desire to show separate content within a single topic section but without the 'scroll of death'. It is an improvement on using labels and indented activities to create artificial subsections and also a w...
Security
The plugin is developed and maintained by Marina Glancy, Development Process Manager at Moodle HQ. We can therefore expect it to meet all security standards.
Usability
Once installed, the plugin is very intuitive to use, but there is a short documentation page available if further explanation is needed: Flexible sections course format.Once the teacher selects the course format from Course administration >Edit settings and turns on the editing they can then add subsections to each course section:More than one subsection may be added, and for each subsection there is a link to add activities and resources. The icons for moving, deleting and hiding each s...
Technical
The plugin is developed and maintained by Marina Glancy, Development Process Manager at Moodle HQ. We can therefore expect it to meet all coding standards.