Moodle in English: BUG! Course Start Date?

BUG! Course Start Date?

by Tan M - Thursday, September 30, 2004, 4:03 AM

Hi!

Probably just a misunderstanding on my part, but I titled it BUG to get your attention. =)

I have set the course start date to October 1, 2004 and have set the enrollment period to 31 days. By doing so, I wish to achieve a course that will not allow people in until October 1st, and then deactivate them after October 31st.

I tried this and found that students can still enroll today (September 29th) even though it's not October 1st yet!

The reason I say this is a potential bug is because of the new paypal enhancement. As a paid course that depends on course start and end dates to make money, it will not be good if a student purchases an October class on September 1st and then can login right away (as opposed to having to wait until October 1st for his username to become active).

What do people think?

Thanks!

Tan

Re: BUG! Course Start Date?

by Chardelle Busch - Thursday, September 30, 2004, 6:07 AM

Hi Tan,

1. You already posted this in the Business Uses forum, and Bryan has replied there.

2. You might want to try clicking on the help ? buttons in your Moodle program before posting questions. If you did you would understand that the start date does not keep people from enrolling before that date (it is desirable to give users some time to sign up before the course actually starts), but the enrollment period will "unenroll" users when that period is up.

3. If you want to get more ideas about using the PayPal integration, post them in the Business Uses course, or in the Enrollment forum here.

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Re: BUG! Course Start Date?

by Tan M - Thursday, September 30, 2004, 11:23 AM

Sorry for the double post. I figured it was applicable to both forums: "paypal need" for the business folks and "potential bug" for the developers.

The ? buttons did not answer the questions I had, which is why I posted. I understand why the start date works as it does, I just thought others may be interested in the need for preparing courses in advance, now that the paypal enhancement is here and is still so new.

Thanks!

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Re: BUG! Course Start Date?

by Martin Dougiamas - Thursday, September 30, 2004, 12:03 PM

Please do not post bug reports in the developer forum ... use the bug tracker.

Moved to enrolment plugins.

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Re: BUG! Course Start Date?

by Chardelle Busch - Thursday, September 30, 2004, 10:41 PM

Hi Tan,

Did you see my "idea" in the other post?

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Re: BUG! Course Start Date?

by Chardelle Busch - Thursday, September 30, 2004, 11:39 PM

As per Martin's post, actually this isn't a bug at all. So don't add it as one in the bug tracker. But, you can add "feature requests" to the bug tracker.

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Re: BUG! Course Start Date?

by Tan M - Friday, October 1, 2004, 12:32 AM

Yes! It was a good one!

I think I might just try it.

Thanks!

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