Course formats: Buttons
format_buttons
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Rodrigo Brandão
Buttons is a course format that creates a menu with buttons to access the sections, one by one.
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Moodle 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5
Buttons is a course format that creates a menu with buttons to access the sections, one by one.
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Features
* Create groups of sections, to separate topics in modules or periods;* Create names to the groups to identify them. (Example: First Semester, Topics about a specific theme);
* Change the colors of the buttons (when active, inactive, on over and hidden), to fit it your Moodle theme;
* Define the list-style between numbers, alphabet or roman numeral;
* Define the button's shape between squares or circles.
Installation
* For recent Moodle versions, you can install this plugin automatically from the Moodle plugins database.Manual installation
1. You can manually download the zip file from the Moodle Plugins Database.2. After downloading the zip file, expand it and put it's contents in your .../moodle/course/format/ directory.
3. The folder name must be 'buttons'.
4. Go to 'Admin ► Site administration ► Notifications' page.
5. Follow the instructions inside the page to finish the installation.
Usage
1. When creating a new course, select 'Buttons format' in the 'Course format' dropdown menu.2. To select the format, simply choose it from the list of course formats in the course settings.
3. Choose the number of sections, or leave the default of 10 sections.
4. Choose where you want the first (zero) section (which has the default 'Announcements' forum) positioned: Either 'Above the list buttons' or 'Below the visible section'.
5. Select the sequential rule. You can uses the count original of the topics, or chose to reset the count to each new grouping.
6. Select the list-style in numbers, alphabet or roman numeral.
7. Write the titles for all the groupings you will use and the number of sections that each one will have. If a group has only one section, the icon will be (...).
8. Write the hexadecimal color for the current section button and the visible section button, or leave it empty to use the default value.
Documentation
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Is to use like "Long title[br]for this topic" to show a group title in two line.
But I liked your idea, and I will think about a solution to create group lines.
Really great plugin, a small snag is that if you want to re-order sections then the title given to that section stays in its position . So for example if section one is called start and has 3 files in and section 2 is called Introduction and has 1 file in, if you drag section 2 above section 1 it inherits the title Start but keeps its files which means the settings have to be edited again.
Good planning when dding material to a course will avoid this but hey who's perfect?
Cheers
Colin
Have added Bug to GitHub. Any advice appreciated!
Thanks.
I always use this plugin and like it so much. But I had to update Moodle to 3.4 version and the new menu (boost) does not work with the button.
I also just installed your plugin and am getting the following error. We are running Moodle 3.3 on IIS8 with PHP5.6.
pix_url is deprecated. Use image_url for images and pix_icon for icons.•line 267 of \lib\outputrenderers.php: call to debugging()
•line 283 of \course\format\buttons\renderer.php: call to renderer_base->pix_url()
•line 343 of \course\format\buttons\renderer.php: call to format_buttons_renderer->section_header()
•line 48 of \course\format\buttons\format.php: call to format_buttons_renderer->print_multiple_section_page()
•line 280 of \course\view.php: call to require()
When I activated the plugin and edit the topics at course home page one error is occorring, a pop-up is showed with the error: inplaceeditableerror
Is someone had the same problem?
I added my issue to Github re embedded content - was just wondering if there's any progress or potential to fix this, as it's really inhibiting us using this great course format.
Hope you can help!
Fantastic format!!
How can I put more than two colors on the buttons? How in this image
Muito Obrigado!
- Fixes issue that occurred in Moodles version 3.2.x, 3.1.x and 3.0.x
Great plugin!
I would like to know if it is possible to do the following customizations to your plugin:
1) Can we adjust the positioning of the buttons panel?
2) Can we add text/names/course sections into the button instead of numbers?
3) Is it possible to change the layout and alignment of buttons?
thanks so much.
Thank you!