I would like to announce the first public release of a new Subcourse module. The module provides very simple yet useful functionality. When added into a course, it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is taken from a final grade in another course. Combined with metacourses, this allows course designers to organize courses into separate units.
The module need PHP5 to run. Moodle version 1.9 is supported. Do not use this module at production servers yet - it has not been tested too much. On the other hand - you are warmly welcome to install, test and report any problems. See http://docs.moodle.org/en/Subcourse_module for more details on how to install and report bugs.
Thanks for any ideas, comments and problem reports.
David
Hi David,
Here I am again. Sorry for blaming Subcourse! It turned out when I converted my SQL database all NULL-variables were lost. This messed up my gradebook in 1.9.2, so Subcourse was having trouble fetching grades because the gradebook was wrecked.
All's well now, after a manual edit of my SQL database. Subcourse is working flawlessly and is a fantastic addition to Moodle for me! I have several parents who wish to track the grades of their children. Subcourse is used to create a report parents can easily view. Thanks for this incredible addition to our Moodle!
Here I am again. Sorry for blaming Subcourse! It turned out when I converted my SQL database all NULL-variables were lost. This messed up my gradebook in 1.9.2, so Subcourse was having trouble fetching grades because the gradebook was wrecked.
All's well now, after a manual edit of my SQL database. Subcourse is working flawlessly and is a fantastic addition to Moodle for me! I have several parents who wish to track the grades of their children. Subcourse is used to create a report parents can easily view. Thanks for this incredible addition to our Moodle!
Hi Jürg,
I am going to focus on maintaining the 1.9 version at the moment. As far as I know, Moodle 2.0 is still in very alpha stages and I do plan to update the Subcourse before Moodle core API stabilizes a bit.
Use the Subcourse at production server on you own risk. I haven't got chance yet to test it very much so every comment and/or idea and/or bugreport is welcome! Thanks in advance.
David
I am going to focus on maintaining the 1.9 version at the moment. As far as I know, Moodle 2.0 is still in very alpha stages and I do plan to update the Subcourse before Moodle core API stabilizes a bit.
Use the Subcourse at production server on you own risk. I haven't got chance yet to test it very much so every comment and/or idea and/or bugreport is welcome! Thanks in advance.
David
Hi sDavid
Thank you for your information. It works very well on my 1.9.3+ version.
Nice to have
If I have two classes in the same subcourse I would like to fetch a "category total" (subcategory total) for each student class made
StudentsPoints_C1
StudnetsPoints_C2
at the moment I fetch always the category course total
Maybe a bug
If i there is an activity with grade = scale: ......... the total is 2 points higher.
I made a german translation, I can give it to you.
Thanks a lot for your work.
Jürg
Thank you for your information. It works very well on my 1.9.3+ version.
Nice to have
If I have two classes in the same subcourse I would like to fetch a "category total" (subcategory total) for each student class made
StudentsPoints_C1
StudnetsPoints_C2
at the moment I fetch always the category course total
Maybe a bug
If i there is an activity with grade = scale: ......... the total is 2 points higher.
I made a german translation, I can give it to you.
Thanks a lot for your work.
Jürg
Hello Jürg. Have you managed to do any development work on this module yourself? I ask only because the idea you suggest in "nice to have" is something I may developing myself for use in our college.
This module does about 80% of what we would like it to so it will fall to me to develop the other 20%. I am in the process of clarifying the requirements now.
Regards,
Paul.
This module does about 80% of what we would like it to so it will fall to me to develop the other 20%. I am in the process of clarifying the requirements now.
Regards,
Paul.
Is there anyway this module can fetch itself without us fetching it? or at least have only one button <fetch all > i have like 12 subcourses in one course that i use just for pulling grades and its quite annoying to keep clicking on fetch now fo each subcourse especialy that i don't want to forget any of them...
Hello Davis,
Are you still developing the Subcourse module, or have you moved on? The reason I ask is that I find the "fetch" button confuses students. It would be great if obly the teacher saw the fetch button and the students saw only the link to the course.
Anyway, thanks for a very useful module.
Nick
Hi David, good job. This is the spanish (es_utf8) translation.
1. It's possible add multiple course references into the same activity?
2. It's possible advanced features in mod_form for grouping?
Thanks
1. It's possible add multiple course references into the same activity?
2. It's possible advanced features in mod_form for grouping?
Thanks
Is there any documentation for this module. I've got a client who is using this but I can't figure out what it does or how to use it. The documentation in the wiki just seems to give the outline of what it does not how to actually use or configure it.
I've got a bunch of courses with subcourse activities but I can't understand what they do.
Any help appreciated.
I've got a bunch of courses with subcourse activities but I can't understand what they do.
Any help appreciated.
Not realy a big documentation for this module...
However, it's quite simple.
«Subcourse module» appear in the course as an activity module you can insert on the course page. After that, you have to give a name to that activity, insert a description and say what is the course who is the «subcourse» (reference course). You can save that page and the module is insert in your page.
You need after to «fetch», ie in the subcourse integrate to your page, you click on the «Fetch now» (or something like that... my Moodle install is in French) button. The result is that the score a student have in the subcourse is shown in the Gradebook of the course where you have insert the subcourse module.
Really interesting when you whant to track the results of students in multiple courses...
Hope that's help.
JF
They could, but the module himself don't give many infos to them. So, I always mask it in the course main page.
But in the GradeBook the student see the score import from the subcourse.
To be true, the Subcourse module is for me just a missing feature of the metacourse structure... but the advantage to get it independent from the metacourse logic is that you can import in one course the results from courses not relate to parent course (i.e. you dont need to be in a metacourse structure to be able to import that results).
Metacourse are just a way to link two courses and do a faster registration of your students... but it don't provide the possibility of reporting the score from a course in another course.
As it's said in the documentation of the Subcourse module "it behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is taken from a final grade in another course."
You have a good idea with the add at the documentation, but the point is that I'm not enough easy in English to do so
(little French Canadian, I am) 
