Flexpage format
The Flex Page Format
Intel Education engaged with Moodlerooms to develop a new course format and several new community building functions that are now available to the open source community under the standard Moodle license.
The new Moodle course format and community functions are core elements of the new Intel® Teach Essentials Online Course which will train teachers around the world how to use technology effectively in the classroom. To date, after 18 months in development, the Intel® Teach Essentials Online Course has gone live in Russia, Egypt, Brazil and the United States.
Features
The Flexpage format is a new course format for Moodle. It is named Flexpage for 'flexible page', as it is a format that enables a content author a great deal of control over how and where content is displayed.
The basic features are:
- 3 column view: Moodle blocks and modules can be assembled in any order in up to 3 columns on the page.
- Inline Module display: the format can be extended to display module content inline (in the page). Presently this only has been extended for Forum, Assessment, and Resources, other modules show a link as expected.
- Back button: When you enter a module, there is a back button to return you to the page you were previously on.
- Parent-Child pages: a page can have child pages, and child pages can have child pages.
- Automatic Tabs: A parent page can create a top tab if uses with the flexpage theme.
- Course Menu: this block used with the Flexpage format provides a multiple menu system for navigating the pages.
- Roles based menus: there is a 'view menu' role, so menus can be hiddent/shown based on user role.
- Backup and restore: any course in Flexpage format can be fully or partly backed up and copied to another course
See also
- Themed resource - an example of a potential use of Flexpage
- For more information on Flexpage, please visit this site This feature was developed by a Moodle partner MoodleRooms
- Discussion -- Moodle.org Course Format forum
- Article on the pedagogical benefits of using Flexpage along with other enhancements developed by Moodle Partner Remote Learner
