Course contents block

Course contents block is similar to the Simple navigation block. It simply produces a list of all visible topic/week in your course. Clicking at one of these links will display that particular week or topic.

The block automatically extracts a suitable title for every week or topic from the section summary. If you start summary with a heading (H1, H2, H3, etc), it will use such heading text. If your summary starts with a bold text, it will be used as a section title. If the summary consists of several paragraphs, the first one will be used. If the summary is empty, a customizable text "Unit X" (where X is the number) is displayed. Technically spoken, the plain text content of the first non-empty HTML DOM node from the section summary is used as the summary title.

The topic title is automatically extracted from the section summary

Installation

• Moodle 1.9 - checkout CVS HEAD branch or download the daily build

The source codes of the module live in CVS contrib/plugins/blocks/course_contents. To checkout the module, go to the Moodle blocks/ directory and use:

cvs -z3 -d:ext:myusername@cvs.moodle.org:/cvsroot/moodle co -d course_contents contrib/plugins/blocks/course_contents

See also

• Modules and plugins database record