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Standard course formats

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Course formats affect the course area (context) that contain sections/topics. A teacher can select 1 of 4 standard types of display by changing the "Format" field on the Edit course settings page.

  • SCORM format - Only has 1 section, and allows teacher to insert a pre-built SCORM package.
  • Social format - Only has 1 section and only allows for Forum discussion activities in that section.
  • Topics format - (Default in a standard Moodle) Creates sections that a teacher may label. Works with "Number of weeks/topics".
  • Weekly format - Creates sections with initial section labels that span 7 days. Works with "Number of weeks/topics" and "Course start date"

While there are "only" 4 basic types of formats, do not be misled into thinking that courses which share the same basic format type will look alike! For example, this setting does not affect the areas for placing blocks. Thus a teacher can place blocks to the right or left or eliminate all displayed blocks next to section column in a course.


Visual examples of course formats

  • Basic course format examples - click to enlarge
  • SCROM course format

    SCROM course format

  • Social course format

    Social course format

  • Topic course format

    Topic course format

  • Weekly course format

    Weekly course format

Tips and tricks

  • Be careful of changing a course format after you have loaded content into your course. For example, creating a course in a topic format, adding activities in the sections, will all be erased if you change the format to SCORM or Social formats. You can switch from topics to weekly format without losing materials.
  • Not seeing all your sections in your course. Check the course administration settings for number of weeks/topics displayed. Or did you hide them via course administration settings, or collapse all but the current one with the section icon.

See also

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