Weekly Tabs

Weekly Tabs is an optional course format for handling weeks in a tabular style. The course view appears as a table with buttons captioned with numbers of weeks.

The first tab shows all available blocks in the course. The second tab shows the course summary. The remaining tabs will bring up the content for each week of the course.

Features

Displaying courses in tabular links, also grouping all blocks and administration into one tab, sliding smoothly, very nice and simple and doesn't distract learners

Summary tab
blocks tab
weeks tabs

Screen shot example

Download & Installation

You can download the best version from the Weekly Tabs in the Modules and Plugin database.

To install: admin status needed and experience installing 3rd party modules recommended.

Unzip this package
Place the "tabs" folder into the course/format/ folder of your Moodle program files
Place the "lang" folder and help files into the appropriate language folders of your moodledata directory
Go into a course where you have teacher or admin status. Click on "Course settings".
Change the course format to "weekly tabs".
Turn "editing on" and you will see new icons appear.

Status & known issues

Status

This course format has been used since early Octobar 2008 in a full 1.9 production environment. However, we urge you use this on a development server until you can verify it works well with you your data. We believe it supports all standard modules plus some third party modules. Let us know which modules work or do not work in your environment

Known issues

Known issues include:

Numbering in tabs is week number; sorry I couldnt add the "12 Oct - 19 Oct" due to the page size.
Arabic language courses are not 100% fully functional.. some mess in layout
Need to add $string['formattabs'] = 'Weekly Tabs'; in lang/en_utf8/moodle.php manually

Help

Use General Course formats help to install, uninstall this format.

Documentation