Hello,

I found out that there is a problem with the visibility of hidden sections. In the theme format, you can adjust whether a student can see or not hidden sections in the left hand list (and also in the mobile app). The options for the teacher to choose are a) only hide the content / make the access impossible but see that there is a section or b) hide everything completely.

The tiles format behaves according to these settings in the theme format. So a teacher from my school asked me why the pupils could see sometimes the hidden sections an in other courses not. It would be much better if there was an option in the settings of the tiles format that allows that choice as well, otherwise it's quite complicated and at the end as well too difficult to handle.

To show the problem I've made a video - sorry, the writings are in german, I hope you see what I mean: https://cloud.arcoworld.de/s/LaPo8xb9fL5G2DB

I've tried it out in different Moodle branches until 4.5 and the corresponding tiles format plugin versions.

Thanks a lot for your work and assistance!

hi,
there is a problem with the subsections in the course index , when we click in the course index on any subsection the main page turn gray and not showing the subsection but it close any opened tile or if there is nothing open only grays the surrounding (animated navigation enabled).

It looks like the plugin is messing with the sesskey which causes Moodle (ver 4.4 and 4.5) to loop on this error message: "Error loading content. Your session may have expired. Try refreshing this page. CANCEL/REFRESH." Has anyone else encountered this problem?

Hey Nyasha, we've been getting the same problem too. Started off with a couple of users who couldn't access one specific course, but today I've had a user say they can't access any course because of the message you quoted above.
It looked like it was a VPN that was causing issues for the first two. They had to completely remove it from their device - not just disable it - for some reason.

The user today has removed it but I'm not sure if he's recieving the messages still. He did say that it's working on another device so I'm pretty confident it's something on his machine that's causing it.

There is a maximum number of sections that can be created in a course. I have 80 sections created and it does not allow me to add another one.
Moodle 4.1.11 and php 8.1

Could you please advise if it’s possible to adjust the layout so that there are three tiles per row instead of four, making them slightly larger? I need to add steps from 1 to 6 in my course and label them, for example, Step 1. Challenge and Objectives. However, this text is quite long and currently appears on two lines.

Hello David, we are using the tiles plugin and the new subsections option with Moodle 4.5, however, we have an issue. When we try to pull a complete report on a course participant, it doesn't show or include the activities/assignments within the subsections, This appears to be an issue with the plugin as we have tested pulling this report on two different test servers, not utilizing the tiles plugin.

Hello, when i am using this and trying to use numbers as the tile icon, the '1' link shows up a sa selection but it is a broken link when saved? Does anyone have any ideas? i am hesitant to go into the server or do changes like that from a sustainability POV

The tiles work really well and look great, the issue I have is with the word 'icon' appearing where activity and resources icons should be. For example a Folder icon etc. Is there a setting I need to check?

Hola David, lo primer es felicitarte por tu gran contribución. Luego te comento mi problema, cuando el formato de curso "Mosaico" está activado, no es posible acceder a los recursos del curso (como archivos PDF, enlaces, tareas, etc.) haciendo clic directamente sobre ellos después de haber ingresado a un mosaico (sección del curso). Al intentar abrir un recurso, el sistema redirige inmediatamente a la vista principal de mosaicos del curso, impidiendo el acceso al contenido.

Es importante destacar que sí es posible acceder a todos los recursos sin ningún problema utilizando el índice del curso que se muestra en el panel lateral izquierdo. El problema ocurre exclusivamente al intentar navegar a través de los mosaicos. Detalles del Entorno:

Versión de Moodle: 4.3.3
Versión del Formato Mosaico (Tiles Format): 4.3.0.64
Versión del Tema: Universe 1.5.8

Hi David, first, congratulations on your great contribution. Then, let me tell you about my problem: when the "Tiles" course format is enabled, it's not possible to access course resources (such as PDFs, links, assignments, etc.) by clicking directly on them after entering a tile (course section). When trying to open a resource, the system immediately redirects to the main course tile view, preventing access to the content.

It's important to note that all resources can be accessed without any issues using the course index displayed in the left sidebar. The problem occurs exclusively when trying to navigate through the tiles. Environment Details:

Moodle Version: 4.3.3
Tiles Format Version: 4.3.0.64
Theme Version: Universe 1.5.8

Amazing plugin! Is there any plan to do sub-topics? We have some courses that have a lot of content, and while we love our first course page/landing page to have 4 main tiles, user guides, course modules, exam, certificate, we have a need for course modules to have sub-topics under them, and then activities. So basically one more layer, Tile>Sub-tile>Activity. Is that possible? We are not yet on Moodle 4.5, but if we did upgrade, is there any way to have sub-sections also show up as tiles instead of how they are noted here: https://demo.evolutioncode.uk/course/view.php?id=5#module-214? And until we upgrade, is that an option currently? I really don't want to switch to another course format, this one is perfect. Thanks so much!

is it possible to make it compatible with avif(S) files? or what file do i need to change this so that i can use avif files as tile pictures????

Am I the only one, using Moodle 4.5, experiencing the Unexpected Token Error that I've reported here: https://bitbucket.org/dw8/moodle-format_tiles/issues/166/unexpected-token-error ?

Buenas tardes a todos. Gracias David por tu valioso aporte! Soy administrador de un sitio Moodle versión 4.5.2 e instalé el plugin Tiles Format Release 4.5.0.21. Se me presenta el problema de que cuando activo la edición de las secciones dentro de un curso desaparecen todos los recursos y actividades.