Moodle plugins directory: Flexible sections format

Course formats: Flexible sections format

format_flexsections

Maintained by

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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Marina Glancy (Lead maintainer)

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moris afou
Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 8:25 PM
Hi there,
I've tried to install all plugins to get flexpage format working, but when i create a course with flexpage format i get this error :
Fatal error: Class course_format_flexpage_lib_condition contains 1 abstract method and must therefore be declared abstract or implement the remaining methods (core_availability\info::get_view_hidden_capability) in /$HOME/moodle/course/format/flexpage/lib/condition.php on line 32
Im using moodle 2.7.7 and i guess the plugins i downloaded are 2.7.0 its could be the problem ?

Best regards
Marina Glancy
Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 8:59 PM
Hello moris, this is format "flexsections" and your complain about "flexpage" format. They are two different plugins
moris afou
Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 9:05 PM
Hi Marina,
sorry maybe i confused the plugins name, should i redirect to another forum topic?
Giulio Valentino
Mon, May 11, 2015, 10:38 PM
Hi, any update for moodle 2.9?
Marina Glancy
Wed, May 13, 2015, 1:16 PM
Done, there was a function name conflict with new API in 2.9 so I renamed my function. I did not create a new branch for 2.9 for easier maintenance, so 2.8 is also updated but without any effect on UI
Devon Ritter
Fri, Jul 10, 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, Aug 13, 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, Aug 13, 2015, 9:00 AM
No, not intentional at all. Please open the bug
Inbar Dotan
Thu, Aug 20, 2015, 9:53 PM
FFR: CONTRIB-5883

Thanks!
Mark McKay
Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 7:41 AM
Hi Marina! Will you be updating this for 3.0?
Marina Glancy
Sat, Nov 28, 2015, 8:17 PM
version compatible with 3.0 added
MadEye Moodle
Mon, Jan 4, 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, Feb 3, 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, Apr 7, 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, Jun 30, 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!

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