Plugin (for administrators)

Settings

There are three settings relating to how Multitopic courses with a topic duration display week numbers. It would be best to set these as appropriate at installation. The default settings correspond to the ISO week date system, which is widely used in Europe and Oceania. A few other common systems are listed here: Other week numbering systems. The values correspond as follows:

Multitopic format	Wikipedia entry
Start of week	First day of week
First week minimum days of year	First week of year contains, 3rd column, 1st number
Partial weeks	The opposite of Can be last week of previous year

The Start of week setting should probably be the same as the Moodle setting under Site admin > Appearance > Calendar > Start of week.

Custom CSS

Prior to Multitopic v4.2, the Multitopic format required custom CSS to be added to the Moodle site to provide a decent appearance. In particular, the course banner image and title would appear small without it. Since v4.2, this is no longer necessary. Since v4.2, it is now recommended to remove any such custom CSS. If using a prior version, ensure the custom CSS used is appropriate for your version. This can be found in the Multitopic format README_styles.css file. Old custom CSS from a previous Multitopic version may cause a variety of issues, including topics not collapsing. Custom CSS may be under Site admin > Appearance > Additional HTML > Within HEAD, enclosed in opening and closing <style> tags. Be careful when editing this field, as an unclosed HTML tag may cause the Moodle site to become inaccessible.

The Multitopic format displays its own course header/banner, using the course image as a background image. The default Moodle course header is hidden. If this causes issues, or is not desired, it should be possible to revert these changes by adding the following under Site admin > Appearance > Additional HTML > Within HEAD. As above, be careful to avoid unclosed HTML tags.

<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>

Maximum Number of Sections

Moodle defaults to allowing 52 sections per course. This can be increased under Site admin > Courses > Course default settings > Course format > Maximum number of sections. It is not recommended to set this higher than 78, however, as topics might then fail to collapse. (See MDL-78073.)