Course formats: Collapsed Topics
An interchangeable topic or week (day for 2.3.1+) based format that solves the issue of the 'Scroll of Death' when a course has many topics / weeks. All sections except zero have a toggle that displays that section. One or more sections can be displayed at any given time. Toggles are persistent on a per browser session per course basis but can be made to persist longer by a small code change. Full installation instructions, code adapt-ions and credits are included in the 'Readme.md' file.
If you have a course with more than fifty two sections then currently the toggle persistence will not work for the fifty third section and above. Then you need to upgrade to the Moodle 2.5 version+.
Support:
The format comes with NO support. Please see the 'Support' section in 'Readme.md' file that comes with the format. This is because the format is complex and I regret that I don't have the time / resources to freely assist with questions pertaining to specific enhancements / changes / knowledge improvement.
I will investigate genuine bugs and issue fixes in a timescale set by myself. When reporting issues you MUST clearly state the full version and release of both Moodle and the Collapsed Topics format as contained within their 'version.php' files - if not it takes me longer to figure out, often resulting in me asking for the details anyway and slowing the process of solving your problem down. It really helps to read the 'Reporting Issues' section in the 'Readme.md' file and upload and describe in detail the issue you are having on the 'Course formats' forum.
Book:
NEW: 'The Complete Guide to Collapsed Topics' (and 'Blurb') book is now available, covering: installation, upgrade, uninstallation, course and global features, resetting, capabilities, language strings, overriding icons / styles in a theme and adding a new icon set.
NOTE: The latest version incorporates functionality to support new UK / EU Cookie Law which is implemented as a user acceptance in the 1.9 version and no 'cookie' is used at all in 2.x versions.
Screen casts:
Privacy API support starts with V3.3.1.2 for M3.3 and V3.4.0.2 for M3.4 where the API has been implemented in the minor release of Moodle.
Screenshots
We just upgraded from Moodle 3.4 to Moodle 3.6, yesterday, and with this I noticed a change with the corresponding version of the Collapsed Topics (3.6.0.3 (2018121902)). Before I submit a bug report, I want to see if this is actually a bug or something we, alone, are experiencing.
What's happening is that the Edit menu for Resources and Activities is overlapping with the content of those R&As. When I switch away from the Collapsed Topics, the content and the edit menu do not overlap and there's a clear separation. Has anyone else noticed this?
Thanks, in advance.
body.format-topcoll.editing ul.ctopics .section .activity .contentwithoutlink, body.format-topcoll.editing ul.ctopics .section .activity .activityinstance {
display: inline;
padding-right: 0;
}
Changing the display to inherit and padding back to 200px (in the inspector) fixes the issue. Problem is, I have just enough CSS skill to do some damage and I'm not sure what I might break if I tried to fiddle with that, using the custom SCSS. I'm sure there must have been a good reason to have it set the way it is. I just don't know what that reason was.
Please could you post a screen shot in the courses and course formats forum so I can visualise the problem -> https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=47
G
Thanks for having a look. I appreciate it.
From your description, that situation should be both course format and theme independent. Thus should also occur in the Topics format. Please post on the courses and course format's forum - https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=47 - stating Moodle version after testing with the Topics format too for peer review. Then that issue can be raised in the Moodle Tracker.
Thanks,
Gareth
I'm wondering if anyone knows how to make it so that with this format, the titles of the topics on the menu that is typically to the left of the screen can also function as links to open those sections? With the "1 Topic per page" settings of the regular topics format, you could see all the topics from the main page, but then only one at a time when you clicked on them. I don't need that to be the case, but I did like having the option for students to click on the topic on the left-menu to have that topic open up on the right... Is that remotely possible?
With the links, currently not. I changed the format from core as the 'Course layout' setting could be confusing. However is 'linkcoursesections' admin setting enabled so that the navigation links act as anchor links?
G
window.onhashchange = function() {
$(location.hash + ' .toggledsection').addClass('sectionopen');
}
Nice idea, but it does not take into account the toggle persistence functionality.
G