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Talk:Paged course formats

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Revision as of 21:03, 25 February 2012 by Derek Chirnside (talk | contribs) (Typo)

What is the general idea of 'Paged course formats'? - Will it be that you get to see the section name as a list, then if you wish to view it opens in a new tab within the browser? I now have extensive course format development skills (and I hope enough Git knowledge) - can I help with writing the code for Moodle core? I'm Gareth J Barnard - developer of the Collapsed Topics / Weeks course formats.

Discussions around this

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=175758#p770737

Some of the options currently around for alternative formats

Representing several different approaches.

  1. http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-28555

FOLDERVIEW

Doed much more than just offer page view. Eiting magic as well.

  1. Folderview Blog post: http://thinkingdistance.org/post/6486856003/folderview-course-format
  2. Comments by Michael: http://server3.moodle.com/browse/MDL-27646 Including Folderview in Moodle 2

Paul's comment: "Paul Chapin added a comment - 07/Jun/11 3:20 AM : The folder view format doesn't really do it. Basically, that's just a topic format with a different interface. It doesn't deal with the situation of the instructor who wants to make a large amount of reference information, usually files and web links, available as part of a topic or week without visually overwhelming the students. By allowing for a hierarchical structuring of material using folders the amount of information the student is presented with at any given time can be limited and organized logically. It's really files and links that we want, but if that's implemented, adding the rest of the resource types should be fairly straight forward" MDL-27646

FLEXPAGE

Unsure of status for 2.

  1. Flexipage and Moodle 2.0: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=83817#p74318

COLLAPSED

Two forms: week and topics

  1. http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_topcoll

GRID

Not strictly a "paged format" But getting very good reviews. Looks classy.

  1. http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=format_grid Seems a good option

"The Grid Format was originally contributed by Paul Krix. It has since been updated and is now maintained ny Pukunui Technology. This format adds a more graphical interface to viewing Moodle topics and also avoids the "scroll of death" issue by using placeholder graphics to represent each topic. When clicked upon, these graphics launch the topics in ajax windows" from https://github.com/moodleman/moodle-courseformat_grid

COURSE MENU

There are at least two in plugins:

Plus Lei Zhang (and Awesome Moodle) bar

Catalyst have coded two options included in Moodle in Schools package.

Section Menu Option

OU format option