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Displaying course name above topics

 
Rob Bloor
Displaying course name above topics
by Rob Bloor - Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2:41 AM
 

Nearly there! As a new user, when I go into a course then it displays topics, however the course name is only displayed on the left navigation bar.  I would like the course name to also be display at the top of the topics.  My rationale is that if I find it confusing then others will.

There is the workaround of having the first topic to always be the course name?

Or have I missed another simple default option?

Thanks.

Rob

Yuliya Bozhko
Re: Displaying course name above topics
by Yuliya Bozhko - Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 2:35 PM
 

Hi Rob,

That depends on what kind of course format you are using. As far as I remember, "Demo" format always has a course name as the title for the first topic, but other formats don't. You might need to edit them manually to make sure they appear in the topic title. Unfortunately, there is no course option where you can select to show the course name at the top of the course page.

Yuliya

David Curry (Core Developer)
Re: Displaying course name above topics
by David Curry (Core Developer) - Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 3:57 PM
Group Totara

Hey Rob,

I'd just like to add that if you are on 2.4 you can use the Demo Format. It has the behaviour you are asking about, Default #0 title block at the top of the page with the course fullname as the title. Other than that and a few slight visual differences it works the same as the Topics Format, worth having a look at anyway.

Cheers
David

Rob Bloor
Re: Displaying course name above topics
by Rob Bloor - Thursday, 8 August 2013, 8:23 AM
 

Thanks for your help, played about with the demo mode today.  However similar to the News Items if there is no activity in the box it didn't seem to display the title.  Decided to use my workaround.