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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Release 2.8.4

Moodle 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.1

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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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Thomas Maisons
Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 9:53 PM
Hi,
On Moodle 3.4, when I turn on flexible section in a course, the title of section-0 disappear...
Any idea?
Thx
Rafael Aschoff
Wed, Apr 3, 2019, 4:17 AM
By following the comments, and checking the last time the flexible plugin was update, we end up concluding that support has been dropped. Does anyone knows if there is something similar being supported for the new versions of Moodle? By the way, given the popularity of this plugin, it would not be too much of a stretch to think it could be included as a core course format.
Andreas Giesen
Wed, May 15, 2019, 7:52 AM
I have no issues using it with theme Lambda or theme Boost in 3.5 and 3.6. Though after updating to 3.6 I had to reinstall the plugin. I hope support will be picked up again to ensure future usability! And I definitely agree: it should be core.
Sophie Paine
Mon, May 20, 2019, 12:53 AM
When will the flexsections be upgraded to 3.5 and 3.6? We use it a lot also and yes - would be great to be core.
Jürg Weilenmann Keller
Fri, Jun 7, 2019, 9:39 PM
We would certainly appreciate to see further development of this course format.
Please make it work on moodle mobile.
And if possible, add options to format headers.
Nejc Horvat
Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 7:07 PM
On the "Stats" tab I have seen that it is being used on Moodle versions later than 3.4. How so?
David Delcò
Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:46 PM
Hello Marina,
Congratulations for your flexible sections plugin. I saw it in action on a platform and I would like to put it on mine too, but I saw that it is not suitable for the version of Moodle 3.7. Will there also be a more updated version for more recent platforms?
Thanks.
Good day.
David
Dan Bell
Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 5:32 AM
It is not working for me in Moodle 3.6.1 with the essentials theme. The review tab states it should work with my version (maybe not essentials). It installs, and is available to use. However topic names do not appear. I clicked the edit button in the topic, unchecked the Custom box next to the section name and type a name. On save the section name does not appear. I saved the section with both expanded and collapsed, and the section name never appears. Is it essentials? Is it my moodle version?
Dan Bell
Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 9:58 PM
Seems to not work in Essentials theme. Bummer. Im using Moodle 3.6, and if I change my theme to boost it works. We have already adopted Essentials though.
Idriss SEKRANE
Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 6:01 PM
Marina Glancy
Sun, May 10, 2020, 11:37 PM
hi Dan Bell, please report the issues on the https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-format_flexsections/issues (the link is on the top of the page as "Bug tracker")!
Marina Glancy
Sun, May 10, 2020, 11:48 PM
however, essential theme has reached end of life, so unfortunately, it is not possible to run it in Moodle 3.7 and above
Giulio Valentino
Tue, May 19, 2020, 4:25 PM

Hi, I think it's a good idea to insert the ability to have a css class for each section
Marina Glancy
Wed, May 20, 2020, 7:12 PM
Hi Giulio, please feel free to submit a pull request on https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-format_flexsections , also if you think somebody else would want to comment or discuss on this idea you can create an issue there
Dennis Felix
Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 11:15 PM
Will this plugin get an update to officially work with 3.9? We are very dependant on this plugin.

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