Anyone have any other thoughts?
I have solved my own problem! In a tracker issue here http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22259I think the name is misleading though...
For anyone reading this who hasn't had chance to check MDL-22259, the suggestion is to change the words "Course prerequisite" to "Completion dependencies" to make the setting easily understandable.
Any comments?
The meaning of "completion dependencies" would not be obvious to me as a student. Maybe "co-requisites." I can't think of a term that expresses that well.
Anyway, has there been much more discussion on this recently, the idea of blocked access to a course before a requirement is complete? Has a formal feature request been made? This is something I am interested in as well.
Joey
So, is there a way to enforce the typical "prerequisite" scenario? I'm in need of a solution where I can't take or enroll in Course B until I've completed Course A. Any ideas on how I could do something like this?
I'm also looking for a solution.
I've just had a client request to lock Course 2 until Course 1 has been completed. If I can't find some solutions, we'll have to pay consultants to develop it for us.
Hi Micky - I just posted here Will be interested to see what you or others come up with.
Hello. Did you have any luck with consultansts? Just curious.
How can I disable a course prerequisite once you've selected one? and saved it? The only way I found was by disabling the other course's completion tracking.
That is a bug which is documented here: MDL-27114. There is no way to remove a prerequisite from the completion tracking options page once one has been chosen
HI Gustavo
This is my solution to your problem (I had the exact same problem)
My solution:
1. select the course completion dependency (you know that one that you can't disable) and I'll call this course 1
2. navigate your way to the course that has been selected as the dependency (I'll call this course 2). In the settings disable completion tracking in the student progress settings. Save the changes.
3. Go back to the course 1 (the course that had the dependency you couldn't disable) and then to the completion dependency. You will see that the selection is now gone! Now click on save changes. When you go back to completion tracking settings you will see that the dependency has not be reselected.
4. If needed, go back to course 2 and turn on course completion in the student progress. I had numerous completion tracking options set and none of these were lost and it didn't appear to reactive the dependency in course 1.
Hope this helps resolve your issue.
Regards
Ian
Hello Everyone - and thanks Mary for being so active is sorting this prerequisite issue out.
I am going to play devil's advocate ... in an academic setting (outside of moodle) is there ever a situation where a student can be enrolled in two courses, but must complete course A before course B? This is a finish-finsh dependency. In my experience, students were locked-out of enrolling in the second course in a series if the prior course was not completed. This is a finish-start dependency.
I have never heard the terms finish-finish and finish-start before, but you are right; I have never seen prerequisites being applied in such a way as here. It would be nice to be able to enroll students into multiple courses at a time, but have the advanced ones automatically blocked until the basic ones are finished. Feature requests have been made but I have not noted any solid "yes it's coming" or "not right now" to the idea.
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-22259
So now, four years later, has this been resolved? Is there a finish-enroll scenario so a course must be completed before the second course can be enrolled in? Our scenario is that we require people take an online course before they can enroll in an instructor led course. Thank you.
I totally agree. It seems it must be programatically problematic. That should explain the silence on the the issue.
There's a couple of platforms based on Moodle that do this but I lean towards ELIS as Remote Learner have kindly turned their code into plugins and made them freely available on github. I believe what ELIS calls "Programs" could meet your requirements (see here).
Thanks for the tip