Buttons

Maintained by Jhon Rangel Ardila

Buttons is a course format that creates a menu with buttons to access the sections, one by one. Please favourite ♥!

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Supports Moodle 2.8-5.2 See all versions

Latest release: 1 month ago

Installations: 4773

Downloads (last 90 days): 1267

Frankenstyle name: format_buttons

Course formats

Current version

Moodle 4.5

Uploaded on Wednesday, 3 June 2026 at 21:21 (GMT+0)

Plugin type: Course formats

Frankenstyle component name: format_buttons

Version build number: 2025110405

Version release name: 4.5

Maturity: Stable

Supported Moodle versions: 4.5

Repository URL (Git): https://github.com/jrangelardila/moodle-format_buttons

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Issue/bug tracker URL: https://github.com/jrangelardila/moodle-format_buttons/issues

Moodle Course Format "Buttons"

Buttons is a course format that creates a menu with buttons to access the sections, one by one.

Create names to the groups to identify them. (Example: First Semester, Topics about a specific theme);

Change the colors of the buttons (when active, inactive, on over and hidden), to fit it your Moodle theme;

For recent Moodle versions, you can install this plugin automatically from the Moodle plugins database.

After downloading the zip file, expand it and put it's contents in your .../moodle/course/format/ directory.

When creating a new course, select 'Buttons format' in the 'Course format' dropdown menu.

To select the format, simply choose it from the list of course formats in the course settings.

Choose where you want the first (zero) section (which has the default 'Announcements' forum) positioned: Either 'Above the list buttons' or 'Below the visible section'.

Select the sequential rule. You can uses the count original of the topics, or chose to reset the count to each new grouping.

Write the titles for all the groupings you will use and the number of sections that each one will have. If a group has only one section, the icon will be (...).