Miscellaneous plugins

There are a number of additional plugin types that are used less frequently than the ones already covered. It is expected that more will be added to these categories in the future, either as part of the Moodle core or third-party add-ons.

Course formats

Course formats drive the way learning content is displayed in courses. Moodle drives four course formats; additional formats can either be downloaded from https://moodle.org/ or be custom developed. Three popular third-party course formats are the Grid format (https://moodle.org/plugins/format_grid), Collapsed Topics format (see installation later in the chapter), and the Socialwall format, which mimics a Facebook-like course layout (https://moodle.org/plugins/format_socialwall ...

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