Multitopic format

Hi James, thank you for your quick and clear reply.

Sorry, no. The course just appears as normal in the Moodle app. I don't know how to change that.

Hi James, for multilanguage courses your tab format seems perfect. Since our moodle installation is managed by an external company, installing a plugin requires some effort. Before asking for it, are the tabs also working within the moodle app i.e. are the tabs also available there and by clicking on them then only shop the topics belonging to the tab? Thank you very much in advance.

Hi James,
Thank you for such a speedy response! That worked a treat and looks great! Thanks for your help - really loving the format!

Hi Kit,
Thanks. Activity navigation (if any) is added by a Moodle theme, but the Multitopic format uses CSS to hide it. If the Moodle theme you're using supports activity navigation, you should be able to unhide it by overriding the CSS. You could put this in Site admin > Appearance > Additional HTML > Within HEAD, within an HTML style tag. Be careful to close the style tag correctly, as not doing so could lock you out of the Moodle server.
For Moodle 4.x, this CSS should work:
body.format-multitopic.path-mod.pagelayout-incourse #page #page-content .activity-navigation {
display: block !important;
}
For Moodle 3.x, this CSS may be needed instead:
body.format-multitopic.path-mod.pagelayout-incourse #page #page-content [role='main'] + .m-t-2.m-b-1,
body.format-multitopic.path-mod.pagelayout-incourse #page #page-content .activity-navigation {
display: block !important;
}

Hi James, really nice and tidy course format! Is there a way to enable next/previous activity links/buttons? Many thanks!

For anyone else interested in the above issue, discussion continued here: https://github.com/james-cnz/moodle-format_multitopic/issues/43

Hi,
I have a problem with the "old" plugin version and Moodle 4.4. Moodle will not let me install the RC1 version because "it is already installed".
The problem is that if the course is opened or one is in a different topic than section 0, the link to section 0 does not contain the section ID, but only the course ID - and then tries to access this (empty) position in class content. Thus, the first section is not shown and the entire course is not displayed. Sigh.
I already submitted a ticket.

Hi Garvin,
I'm not sure I know what you mean, but if you're talking about the maximum number of sections in a course, a Moodle administrator can change this under Site admin > Courses > Course default settings > Course format > Maximum number of sections. However setting this over 78 may mean that collapsing sections and items in the course index may fail to work if too many things are collapsed. See https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-78073

Hi,
we use the Plugin and it works well.
Now we have a teacher, he aks to increase the Numbetrs of Multitopic on each site, over 99.
Is it possible? Wen yes, where?
Thanks

Hi Blair,
Although there's no option for this, you could disable it site-wide with some CSS. You could put the following in Site admin > Appearance > Additional HTML > Within HEAD. Replace curly brackets with angled brackets (I don't think I can type angled brackets in the comments). And be careful to get it right. I just found out it's possible to lock up a Moodle server if the style tag isn't closed properly.
{style}
body.format-multitopic .page-header-headings {
display: block !important;
}
body.format-multitopic #course-header {
display: none;
}
body.format-multitopic#page-course-edit #fitem_id_bannerslice {
display: none;
}
{/style}

It would be nice if there was an option not to include the summary image at the top of the course page. We include it so that it appears on a student Dashboard and My Courses page and it's sized to look good there. This sizing doesn't work well with the top of the course page. I thought maybe choosing 0% would remove it, but I discovered that that's not how that setting works.

For others' information, the above issue (sections not collapsing in Moodle 4.x) looks like it was caused by old CSS that was needed for Multitopic for Moodle 3.x. This may be under Site admin > Appearance > Additional HTML > Within HEAD. Since Multitopic v4.2.0, It should be OK to delete any CSS related to the Multitopic format, as needed CSS is built in now.

WE are using Moodle Version 4.1.5 build 20230814

Hi Herve,
Sorry, I saw this message when you posted it, then completely forgot about it. I don't know what the issue could be. I think we were using Multitopic v4.2.1 on Moodle 4.1.4 without problems. (Although it looks like we're using Moodle 4.1.5 now.) Has anything else about your Moodle server changed recently, like any new plugins? Maybe if you set me up a guest account with access to a Multitopic sandpit (student role should be fine), and message me the login details, I could have a look, and see if I can figure it out.