Ready to customize the look and layout of your Moodle course? Explore the various course format types available and learn how to choose the perfect structure to organize your content and engage your students effectively.
Course sites can be configured to display content in one of five different formats.
- Grid: In this visual format, section content is hidden and replaced with short titles and a grid of images—one for each section. Section content is revealed in a “lightbox” when an image or title is clicked.

Grid View Example

Grid View Section
- Custom sections: Sections are organized by section names, which can be renamed.

- Weekly sections: Organized week-by-week, with a clear start and finish date. Moodle will create a section for each week of the course.

- Single activity (not frequently used): With only one section, this format allows instructors to add only one activity to the course.
- Social (not frequently used): Oriented around one main forum that appears on the main course page.
To select a different course format type:
- Click the gear menu, and then click Edit settings.
- Expand the “Course format” section and select the format type from the “Format” drop-down menu.
- For Custom sections and Weekly section formats, instructors can set a course to display one section at a time rather than all sections at once, which is the default. Select Show one section per page from the “Course layout” drop-down menu.
- Click the [Save and display] button.