Soft Course format

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This plugin is provided by Pimenko, Moodle Certified Partner, Moodle Core Contributor & creators of Ludilearn.

This course format displays sections with an image and an optional text if added in the section summary.

With this design, this course format goal is to present the course quickly with just the main information about the sections (title of the section). Users don’t see the details of the section, For instance, resources or activities. So, this course format is rather recommended for a linear course or any course where it isn't important to quickly see the resources/activities.

Softcourse is a course format for Moodle developed by Pimenko. 

Last release is compatible with Moodle 4.0 with a few improvements :

• Moodle 4.0 compatible
• Rework text elipsis
• Fix a string traduction
• Fix a z-index issue
• Fix an issue with start button not working as expected

Overview of Softcourse

In this video we use Soft Course format and the block "Course module navigation".

Features :

Check the documentation for full explanations : https://docs.moodle.org/39/en/softcourse

1. Describe your course. A description can be added before section 0. If you "edit settings" of the course, you can add text and image to describe your course. A first area display a "start" button with your description. You can't add activity/resource (mod) in this area. 



2. Custom sections 
- Only the title of sections with an image is visible. A short description (100 words) can be added for each section.


- For each section, you can edit the presentation image. 

3. Other features. If achievement is used, a progress bar will remain visible in order to indicate activities/resources completed in a section. 

Recommendations :

• Describe your course :  we think it is better to add a short description or/and an image to describe or introduce your course. You can use the first area at the top of the course homepage.
• To improve orientation of learners in your course pages, you can use the Course Module navigation block..
• We recommend to use an image with 250px X 150px or a similar ratio.

Option :

If you wan to simplify your course homepage, you can display only the short description of the course. All sections can be hidden.