Tabs

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Tabs appear towards the top of a QMplus area and are particularly useful for content that needs to be accessed quickly.

This guide shows you how to make the best use of tabs in your QMplus course

What are QMplus tabs? [edit]

Tabs appear at the top of your QMplus course area. Each tab can contain any number of sections/topics. By default you can have up to 5 tabs. In a standard QMplus taught module area that follows the core QMplus template, there are 4 standard tabs (and 1 optional tab) as follows:

1. Module Overview
2. Learning Resources
3. Assessment and Feedback
4. Student Support
5. Skills Journey (an example of an optional tab)

Adding and moving content to tabs [edit]

Adding content to a tab is easy, you can simply add topics/sections directly to the tab that already exists, or if the content already exists in a tab, you can select the topic/section and send it to display in one of the other tabs.

To do this, first turn editing on by clicking the Edit toggle button at the top right of the screen.

Go to the topic/section you wish to put into a tab, click on the 3 vertical dots to the right of the topic/section title and choose the tab you want the section to display in. In this example, we send the “Week 2: More stuff” section to tab Resources.

Once complete the entire topic and all it's content will display in the Resources tab as selected.

You can continue to choose sections and send them to display in tabs.

Although tabs may already be configured in your course area, they won’t display to students until you put content in to them. If there is no content within a tab, it will remain hidden to students.

Adding, Moving and Renaming tabs [edit]

During the summer of 2026, a new feature was implemented in QMplus that 'locked tabs' in place. This means that by default staff cannot add, remove or rename tabs in their QMplus module area. It is possible to request changes to QMplus tabs, but we don’t recommend too many tabs as the display can become crowded.

You can request changes to the QMplus tabs via your School or Faculty Digital Learning teams (those with 'super' admin access to QMplus. Please refer to QMplus school contact page.

Below are instructions for Digital Learning staff who have QMplus 'super' admin roles and who will be able to amend the QMplus tab structure.

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By default, tabs are ordered according to when they were added. Their names, unless taken from a section name, are Tab 1, 2, 3 and so on, until you rename them. The core QMplus template tabs have been given the names:

1. To move a tab: turn editing on, use the cross hair icon to click and drag the tab to its new position. Note that you cannot move any tabs to the left of the Module Content tab.
2. To rename a tab: select the pencil beside the tab's current name, type the new name and press Enter.

Using the Tab Display resource [edit]

The 'Tab Display' resource was removed from QMplus during the 2025/2026 academic and is no longer in use.