Moodle plugins directory: Flexible sections format

Course formats: Flexible sections format

format_flexsections

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Marina Glancy

Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed expanded or collapsed

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This course format looks very similar to Topics format except:

there is no parameter "Number of sections", sections can be added and removed as necessary
section can also be added inside another section
each section (regardless of its nesting level) can be shown expanded or collapsed. Teacher can change it in edit mode.
If section is displayed collapsed, it's name is displayed as a link to the separate page and on this separate page the link "Back to ... " is displayed

If teacher hides a section all nested sections and activities become hidden as well.

Please note that if section has both activities and subsections activities are displayed first.

On the attached screenshots the section "Assignments" has Label resource and two subsections - "New assignments" (displayed expanded) and "Old assignments" (collapsed). Note how course navigation looks like in this case.

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Devon Ritter
Fri, 10 Jul 2015, 4:59 AM
Hi All. Does anyone know if suggestions such as Elizabeth's to allow users to expand/collapse sections are being worked on? We really like the flex sections format, and find it most useful to have sections collapsed on the course homepage, so students can more easily get an overview of all the course units. Once they are within a unit however, I think many would prefer to then be able to expand the various sub-sections for quicker and easier navigation.
Inbar Dotan
Thu, 13 Aug 2015, 4:08 AM
Hi,
The name of a collapsed section is missing from the breadcrumbs on 2.8 and 2.9, with different themes (on pages like this: http://yoursite.com/course/view.php?id=XXXX&sectionid=YYYY). It was there on 2.6.
Is this intentional or should i open a new bug?

Inbar.
Marina Glancy
Thu, 13 Aug 2015, 9:00 AM
No, not intentional at all. Please open the bug
Inbar Dotan
Thu, 20 Aug 2015, 9:53 PM
FFR: CONTRIB-5883

Thanks!
Mark McKay
Sat, 28 Nov 2015, 7:41 AM
Hi Marina! Will you be updating this for 3.0?
Marina Glancy
Sat, 28 Nov 2015, 8:17 PM
version compatible with 3.0 added
MadEye Moodle
Mon, 4 Jan 2016, 5:37 AM
This is a great plugin. Thank you. is there any way to have dates associated with the sections and subsections so that they appear in the listing and automatically appear in the calendar.
Patrick Aymar
Wed, 3 Feb 2016, 10:10 PM
Hi,
On Moodle 3.0.2 the icons to modify or delete, ... a section or a subsection are 3px width ! (images are larger but there his 0.3em of padding on left and right) :
.format-flexsections .course-content ul.flexsections li.section .controls img {
padding-left: 0.3em;
padding-right: 0.3em;
}
Santiago Garcia
Thu, 7 Apr 2016, 11:09 PM
Hello marina, is there a way to have the sections unavailable but still not hidden, the issue I´m having is that my students can not see their grades if the section is not available. Thanks for your help!
Shutiri Yarbe
Thu, 30 Jun 2016, 9:51 AM
Hello Marina,

Thank you for such a great contribution!
I'm trying to move the sections with the icon for that purpose, but it's greyed out and nothing happens when I try to move the section.
If I click on the icon, the page positions the section on top of the page, but nothing else happens either.

I'm on Moodle 2.9, Google Chrome.

Thanks in advance for your help!
Albert Leatherman
Thu, 20 Oct 2016, 11:07 PM
I agree with Devon and Elizabeth: it would be really useful to allow users to expand or collapse sections/subsections. Thank you.
Syakira Redzuan
Thu, 22 Dec 2016, 10:49 AM
Hello marina!!
Can you update this plugin for Moodle 3.2 version? This plugin was very useful for our university....
Marina Glancy
Fri, 20 Jan 2017, 10:52 AM
New version for Moodle 3.2 is added
Ajinkya Gadewar
Tue, 21 Mar 2017, 6:54 PM
All of the sections where we have used flexsections becomes unavailable on mobile. What can be the issue?
Henrik Berglund
Mon, 27 Mar 2017, 3:25 PM
Hi Marina, we just released a course using the flexible sections format. Thank you for providing this. It is great! I checked with the developers of the Moodle app, and thay say that they will not support this since it is a "non standard" format, however - developers can add mobile support as another plugin: through https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Moodle_Mobile_Remote_add-ons
Have you considered this? Having app support would be awesome! /Best Henrik

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