[LON-CAPA-users] Course Contents always has 1 folder open

[Stuart Raeburn]

Todd,

The reason for this behavior is that there is a "Table of Contents"  
item in the 5th folder of the top level in this particular course.

When you display the Course Contents, LON-CAPA detects that you are  
displaying /adm/navmaps (i.e., Table of Contents) and opens the folder  
containing that item.

However, when LON-CAPA renders the Contents listing it suppresses  
display of any /adm/navmaps items it finds, so you end up with this  
strange behavior: the folder is opened, but the resource which caused  
it to be opened -- a "Table of Contents" item -- is not actually  
displayed in the listing of items in the folder.

A solution, as Course Coordinator, is to click the wrench icon to the  
right of the 5th folder of the top level. That will display the  
contents of the folder in the Course Editor.  Then click the "Remove"  
link to remove the "Table of Contents item from the folder.

If an instructor decides to include a "Table of Contents" item in a  
course the usual practice would be to include it as the first item in  
the course.  However, as long as the "Table of Contents" item is  
included in the top level of the course, you'll not see this strange  
behavior.

Anyway I have filed and assigned myself bug 6823 to eliminate this  
behavior in a future LON-CAPA release, so that regardless of the  
location of a "Table of Contents" item included in the course  
structure, the folder containing it will not be shown as open.

See: http://bugs.loncapa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6823


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting Todd Ruskell <todd.ruskell at gmail.com>:

> Hi Hon-Kie,
>
> Thanks for the idea, but I don't believe that's the issue.  I should have
> been more specific.  The first item in course is just a jpg image.   I
> believe that seems to work fine, as it is the first thing that students see
> when they choose the course.  And this jpg is in the "top level".
>
> Also, when viewing a resource inside some folder, I can then hit "contents"
> and I get the expected contents listing with all folders closed except for
> the folder tree containing the just-viewed resource.
>
> But if I hit "contents" again, I see the expected content listing EXCEPT
> for this one folder, which is the 5th folder of the top level, which has
> been expanded to show its contents.  All other top-level folders (both
> before and after) are closed.  This state (with the mysterious 5th folder
> open) seems to be the default contents listing.
>
> I can send a screen-shot to those who are interested, but don't want to
> attach it here.
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Todd
>
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:23 PM, H. K. Ng <hkng at fsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Under course editor the first item on the list is displayed when you click
>> on contents. It is probably pointing to the folder that you are seeing. To
>> show the contents the first item should be navigate contents.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -hk
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, May 19, 2016, Todd Ruskell <todd.ruskell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've just cloned a course for summer, and folks are noticing and
>>> commenting that every time they go to course contents, there's one folder
>>> that is always opened up.  Typically, when one goes directly to course
>>> contents all the folders are closed.   I've confirmed this behavior.  Any
>>> ideas what might be causing it?  I've poked around the course
>>> configuration, but haven't yet stumbled across anything.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Todd
>>>
>>
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