Moodle plugins directory: Course element

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mod_customlabel

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Valery Fremaux

Course elements is a content strategy to improve course writing quality and editorial stability by providing preshaped pedagogic elements. The integrator or administrator (through custom CSS rules) can take over the styling of the elements. Some elements can have local dynamic behaviour, or have an internal logic strategy based on other data of Moodle. This plugin is supported by Edunao.

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Release 2.9.0 (Build 2017020700)

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The course elements provide pre-shaped pedagogic bricks that can be used as ressources in a course. They behave like labels and are rendered in the course sequence (not like resources in separate content).

Course elements provide high semantic level objects that are commonly used on written learning content, such as "Important, local goals, reminder, example, work description, soluce elements, tips and tricks, see also"...

Contact points elements can clearly mark a location in a course where teacher ans learners should meet some way (face to face, phone call, online synchronous session, mail, other...)

Other course elements provide a pre-styled constant way of rendering course headings, section and sequences headings.

Course elements complete the logic of a flexipage format (or any multi-paged format) in order to improve authors productivity, and content homogeneity, by applying the samel HTML template each time an element is rendered.

Course elements come with a default icon set and layout templates. An overriding strategy is being developped and will be soon documented to let each administrator and integrator freely adapt output HTML and aspect

Course elements need to be used with the Enhanced Multilang Filter in order to display properly.

this plugin is supported by MyLearningFactory distributors as ActiveProLearn SAS and Edunao SAS (French Moodle Partner).

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Valery Fremaux
Thu, 17 Jul 2014, 9:02 PM
i guess this is because you are not using moodle on a primary path domain, but as a subpath , right ? i'm not actually so happy about the path resolution to images in customlabel, as image is mostly an integrator concern or styler concern and should not interfere with component core code. What you aslo can do to take full control over images is (what i do most often) adding a customlabel.css style sheet in styles, and a customlabel_icons directory in your theme, and map all image paths to that..., thus the original code of customlabel does not trouble your image choice and routing....
Elizabeth Dalton
Thu, 13 Nov 2014, 10:27 PM
I have found that if Moodle is installed in a subdirectory, many features do not work correctly, not just the images. I temporarily fixed this on my test server by the command (at the web root)

sudo ln -s moodle/mod mod

However, I think it would be better to fix this in the code. I suspect many of the places where $CFG->dirroot is used should be $CFG->wwwroot instead. This is defined in config.php to point to the moodle root directory. Is there a reason you used $CFG->dirroot instead?
Jean-Gabriel DEPINOY
Fri, 17 Jul 2015, 11:49 PM
Bonjour,
Une version compatible avec Moodle 2.9 est-elle prévue?
Merci.
Geoff Elliott
Tue, 22 Sep 2015, 7:52 PM
et Moodle 2.8?
Laura Robinson
Thu, 21 Jan 2016, 6:04 PM
I've just come across this plugin and like the format, but I need to make a lot of changes to the English text. I've tested making changes to the Work to Do text by editing items in mod/customlabel/type/worktodo/lang/en/customlabeltype_worktodo.php but this has not changed what appears on Moodle when trying to create a new activity. Is there something else needed for the updated text strings to appear? I am using Moodle 2.7.
Dinis Medeiros
Mon, 13 Mar 2017, 7:08 AM
I can get it working in 3.2. Any help? TIA
Finton Paul
Mon, 13 Mar 2017, 10:00 AM
I, also, am not getting this to work.
Each time I choose an item from the pre-defined list a dialog box appears in the browser, [my site] says: "you are about to change the internal data structure of this element...."
This then takes me to the following:
Invalid course module ID
More information about this error

Using Moodle 3.1+ (Build: 20160609)
Ger Tielemans
Mon, 13 Mar 2017, 8:40 PM
version 3.2.2
In $plugin->version = 2013041802; type localgoals is present, but in $plugin->version = 2017020700; type localgoals is missing. plugin checker complains.
Valery Fremaux
Mon, 13 Mar 2017, 9:20 PM
Some answers here for the last tracks ;
- Changing strings : the best practice is to edit the local language package and override strings in customlabeltype_xxxxxx entry. If you change in the component strings you anyway will have to clear all caches to get strings taen into account.
- localgoals missing : Misfit indeed as it has been eroneously discarded as supposed being part of the special CMMI elements (it was not indeed). I reintroduce it in the public pack.
- Invalid course module ID : I invetigate if reproduceable here. The alert message is normal. As course elements contain a micro data model that is not liely to be compatible across elements, the course label type change cannot maintain payload integrity when the type is changed.
Valery Fremaux
Mon, 13 Mar 2017, 9:36 PM
Actually located a regression following the travis-ci and code integrity checker constraints review. Issue located on the mod_form reloading path. Fix in progress.
Valery Fremaux
Mon, 13 Mar 2017, 10:30 PM
Reviewed and tested back. Regression was comming from a silly JSHint code check rule that forces strict equality in logical tests, thus (somevar === 0) and (somevar === '0') do not give identical result !
Yvan Urunuela
Mon, 3 Jul 2017, 9:58 PM
Hi,
This plug-in seems to be really useful, but I have exactly the same problem as Paul Finton (March the 13th).
I'm on Moodle 3.2 and plugin version 3.2.0
Thanks.
Dinis Medeiros
Wed, 7 Mar 2018, 3:28 AM
Is it compatible with 3.4?
florence labord
Thu, 5 Apr 2018, 12:32 AM
it is compatible with 3.4.
Ann Hulton
Sat, 26 May 2018, 8:41 AM
I love this plugin! It is very smart! One small english error that I found was in the 'key points' custom label. The label reads now: "Remind", it should say "Reminder". I tried to contribute in Amos, but it only allows for standard modules. I also curious to know if you will be updating this to work with Moodle version 3.5.

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