
Soft Course format
- Moodle 5.2–5.3
- 更新 2026-09-29
Softcourse is a course format that display sections with only an image and an optional text on the course homepage. Users don’t see the detail of the section, for instance, resources or activities.
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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.
- 4.7.2Moodle 5.2, 5.3
- 4.6Moodle 5.1
- 4.05.1Moodle 4.5, 5.0
- 4.04Moodle 4.4
- 4.03Moodle 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
- 4.01Moodle 4.0, 4.1, 4.2
- 1.0Moodle 3.6, 3.7
- 1.0Moodle 3.5, 3.6, 3.7