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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Moodle 2.8, 2.9, 3.0, 3.1
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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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;
}
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!
Can you update this plugin for Moodle 3.2 version? This plugin was very useful for our university....
Have you considered this? Having app support would be awesome! /Best Henrik
great plugin! I have a course with five sections and am trying to move one section to change the order (section 5 should be section 1), but it is not possible. there is a dragn drop symbol which name is "move" but it is not working. any suggestions?
in the main section of my course the section name is not displayed. Is there any CSS fault?
I've installed it on Moodle 3.3.2+ (Build: 20170915) . However, I cannot find the option to "add a subsection below the "add an activity or resource". Could you help me please?
By the way, the pluguin version I've installed is 3.2.1 and it is enabled.
Thanks in advance,
Francis