Collapsible Topics format

Maintained by Jean-Roch Meurisse
Warning: since sections collapsing behaviour is now integrated into Moodle core, this plugin will not be maintained for Moodle 4.x The collapsible topics format is a clone of the core topics format that adds collapsing behaviour to sections in order to reduce page size.
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Supports Moodle 3.5-3.11 See all versions
Latest release: 4 years ago
Installations: 705
Downloads (last 90 days): 65

Frankenstyle name: format_collapsibletopics
Course formats

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VOMC IT,
I am seeing similar behavior, under different circumstances. All of the modules seem to expand/collapse for students up until module 25. Module 25-30 do not expand/collapse for the student role when hidden sections are set to invisible. When hidden sections are set to show in collapsed state, all of the modules open and close. Moodle 3.8.2
Hello,
I'm using Moodle 3.8.2 and the Collapsible Topics plugin 3.8.
When setting the "Hidden Sections" setting under a course whose "Course Format" is set to "Collapsible Topics format", the student is no longer able to collapse and uncollapse topics which are not hidden.
I posted about this earlier but was unable to delete that previous topic. I have since recorded a video of the behaviour and uploaded it in HD so you can see the behaviour: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnxN-ismKeetgYtiX51Go3OUzNbtlA?e=oTkN7O
Since having this issue, I thought it might have to do with my installation or database. I full deleted the database and all files related to Moodle. I did a clean install and only installed the Collapsible Topics plugin 3.8. Before doing this, I purged all caches as well.
Can anyone replicate this issue? If not, is there any explanation for this?
Hi Roland, thanks for feedback.
I'll try to add such a setting in a future version (when I have time to work on it wink )
In the meantime you can make section 0 name visible by editing section and ticking "custom" next to section name.
Regards
Many thanks for sharing this excellent plugin. One quick question: both this and the collapsibleweeks format force the title of section 0 to be hidden (except when in editing mode). Is there a particular reason for this? If it's purely for aesthetic reasons, I wonder if you might consider including a setting which would allow admins to choose whether the section 0 title is hidden or not? Thanks again.
Hi,
Collapsible topics has been developed for Moodle 3.5. I tested it on 3.3 but not previous versions. Unless you changed the required version in version.php it should not have installed at all.
Regarding language, i guess the plugin has not been translated into Spanish yet. Since there are only about 15 lang strings,maybe you could do that on lang.moodle.org
As for the error, I can try to have a look, but I do not have access to a 3.1 anymore. Please turn on developer debug mode, take a screenshot of the displayed error and write the specific context in which this error occurs (the url for example).
Not that I will be off for some days
Regards
Hello
I installed the Collapsed Topic Plugin on a Campus Virtual running Moodle 3.1. The Moodle was in Traditional Spanish (ES), however after installed the Collapsed Topic plugin the Moodle installation changed to English language (EN), and I am getting some errors that I did not have before the installation of the plugin.
Specifically when I try to grade some task of students and got the error:
“Undefined - Invalid parameter value detected”
Could you please let me know what is going on?
I am in a hurry; I have looked on Internet and nothing.
Thanks
Great, if you like it you can add it to your favourites wink
Thanks Jean-Roch,
In which case I think this is just the plugin I am looking for!
Steve
Hi Steve,
This plugin (and the companion one collapsible_weeks) just adds sections collapsing behaviour to core topics (weeks) format using bootstrap4 built-in collapsing behaviour. It aims at replacing core topics (weeks) format to keep consistency among courses. The only option proposed is to keep collapsing state over sessions or not.
Gareth's plugin also offers collapsing behaviour but with many display options (number of columns, orientation, choice of toggle icon, and so on). His plugin is great, but users in my context wanted something simpler.
Regards
Jean-Roch
Hi Jean,
Are you able to explain the difference between this plugin and the Collapsed Topics (format_topcoll) plugin please?
Thanks in advance,
Steve
Hi Gareth again,
The companion plugin (same thing for weeks format) has just been released wink
Cheers,
Jean-Roch
Dear Gareth,
Thanks for your feedback smile (you can add it to your favourites if you like wink )
As for the height readjustment 'flicker', I think removing the bottom margin on
(line 119 of sytles.css) will do the job. I'll fix that in next release.
Cheers,
Jean-Roch
Dear Jean-Roch,
I've installed the plugin and what can I say, but 'neat' very 'neat', I like it! smile It is simple, elegant and does what it does well. From a technical point of view I love your use of the tilde selector combinator. One concern is the similarity of the name with CT, but perhaps time will tell, we'll just have to manage any support issues accordingly. I did notice that with Boost on M3.5 that when the section opens there is a slight height readjustment 'flicker' that is visible.
Cheers,
Gareth
Approval issue created: CONTRIB-7314