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The '''course menu''' provides navigation between course sections/week with option to include links to the Gradebook, Calendar, Blog Menu and Messages blocks.
The '''course menu''' provides navigation between course sections/weeks as a folder that collapses/expands in the standard folder navigation metaphor. Links will take you directly to course section or direct into an activity or resource within each section. It includes links to administration and other often-used tools and can provide an alternative navigation.
The block includes a Control Panel to administer the course. The appearance of the tree can be controlled with the "Expandable Tree" and "Activate Chapter Grouping" controls.


This version of Course Menu is developed and supported by NetSapiensis AB in Sweden and it's based on the work previously done by Alexis Maldonado at Central Texas College  
It is based on [http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/xtree/ xtree] and was developed into a block by Alexis Maldonado at Central Texas College and further enhanced/maintained by Michael Penney's team at Humboldt in California, USA.
and by Michael Penney's team at Humboldt in California, USA.


The features below can be turn on or off:
For all of its oddities, this course menu has the distinction of being the first attempt to make a structured course menu for Moodle.  It's page on the Humboldt State University seems to be dead, however the code is still available in [http://cvs.moodle.org/contrib/plugins/blocks/course_menu/ cvs]. It has not been updated in a long time and probably will not function.


* Control Panel
There is no licensing information available for the block.
* Gradebook
* Calendar
* Blog Menu
* Messages
* Show All Sections
* Expandable Tree
* Activate Chapter Grouping


The settings are done on a per course basis.
==See also==


Chapter grouping
* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8422 Course menu with xtree] forum discussion
 
* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=47148 HSU's block course menu and Moodle 1.6] forum discussion
"Activate Chapter Grouping" makes it possible to group weeks/topics in chapters. When grouping the weeks/topics
the default distribution is done uniformly among the chapters. The final distribution is done manually
by clicking on the arrows and moving the weeks/topics among the chapters. The name of the chapters can be set independently.
 
You should remember a couple of important things:
 
* By changing the number of chapters all your chaptering settings will be restored to default.
* The number of chapters must be a number greater than 1 and less then the number of visible weeks/topics.
 
The block is freely available under the GPL 3.


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Revision as of 21:47, 6 May 2009

This page is about the original course menu block. For other course menus, see Course Menu

The course menu provides navigation between course sections/weeks as a folder that collapses/expands in the standard folder navigation metaphor. Links will take you directly to course section or direct into an activity or resource within each section. It includes links to administration and other often-used tools and can provide an alternative navigation.

It is based on xtree and was developed into a block by Alexis Maldonado at Central Texas College and further enhanced/maintained by Michael Penney's team at Humboldt in California, USA.

For all of its oddities, this course menu has the distinction of being the first attempt to make a structured course menu for Moodle. It's page on the Humboldt State University seems to be dead, however the code is still available in cvs. It has not been updated in a long time and probably will not function.

There is no licensing information available for the block.

See also

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