Flexible sections format

Maintained by Marina Glancy
Organises course content in any number of sections that can be nested. Each section can be displayed on the same page or on a separate page
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 2.4-5.2 See all versions
Latest release: 3 months ago
Installations: 4888
Downloads (last 90 days): 1249

Frankenstyle name: format_flexsections
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how can i delete a section, i can add sections and sub sections but not possible to delete? also i can hide and move..but what about delete sections?
Hi Mark, no, just the teacher in editing mode.
Seems that it becomes quite often requested feature. So... in the next release smile
Hi Marina,
Is there any way to allow students to collapse and open sub-topics themselves? Or is it entirely teacher-driven?
Thanks,
Mark
Hi Marina, thank you so much for your reply - it's helped me a lot!
Hi Natasja, hiding sections has just been added in the latest version. Make sure that you use it.
Activity completion must also be enabled for each individual module, this does not depend on course format.
Hi Marina!
Thanks for the info about the Flexible Sections Format, it's almost exactly what we've been looking for for structuring our language courses.
I seem to be having two problems with it:
- As a teacher, I cannot hide/show sections, I don't see the 'eye' icon anuwhere. Is this normal? Is there something I need to change in the settings?
- I've activiated 'Activity completing' at course level and I'd like to have my students indacate manually whether they've completed an activity. , However, I don't see the 'checkbox' anywhere, is this normal? Can I move the checkbox to the left or is there an other way to make it visible?
Thank you so much for your help!
Best regards,
Natasja
Earlier problem with navigation disappearing seems to be solved. Cause was the Decaf theme. New version of theme works fine with Flexsections!
Request: could the "Merge with parent" and "Move" buttons be separated from each other? I think I have at least 5 times mistakenly merged a section when trying to move it... (I'm a bit of a slow learnersmile)
Thank you Marina smile
Hi Gareth, I'll do my best. The github link was published inside the version information, sorry, not very evident: https://github.com/marinaglancy/moodle-format_flexsections
P.S. If there was a GitHub published I could have a bash at making the API changes.
Hi Marina,
Will there be a M2.5 version ready before the start of iMoot next week please?
Cheers,
Gareth
Thanks for clarifying Marina. Flex sections is definitely a great improvement for Moodle so thanks for that. I was so hoping for the ability to allow students to expand/collapse topics on the main course page that I somehow missed the indications in the forum posts and module description that this is not what this module does - yet. Hopefully it will be on the roadmap.
Heidi, yes it is intended. In editing mode you can choose if the section appears collapsed or expanded. I will think on how to make it more clear. Also there was a suggestion that students can personalise the expanded/collapsed mode for each section
I was wondering if there is any documentation (I searched but couldn't find) about how the module is intended to work. I have installed and setup a course with great looking and behaving nesting. Everything expands and collapses as I expected but only while editing is turned on. Once I turn editing off the expand/collapse behavior disappears. Is this intended?
Deirdre, sorry for mistyping your name