Pop up activities

If you are not using heavy server side assessment, but mostly resources and client side activities (SCORM, H5P), this format may help provide more interactive courses by opening the activities in popup modals instead of separate web pages. When students finish an activity or resource, they return to the course page by closing the modal without waiting for the course page to load again.

This plugin uses javascript to add AJAX functionality to the standard topics format. Otherwise the format is the same as topics format. Currently Assignment, Book, Choice, Custom certificate, Etherpad lite, File resource, Folder, H5P, Page, Poster, SCORM, and URL activities are supported and can be displayed in modals. Other activities will open normally.

The current version has an optional integration with the Deft response block to provide real time updates to the course page. If the block is installed and enabled, changes to module availability and completion will appear on course page whenever they occur without user interaction.

Developers should be able to add similar functionality to other formats by copying the AMD call in format.php and adding this format as a dependency.

A demonstration course is available at https://openlearner.org/popups.