Hello Gareth,
I created a new forum discussion for 2.5 course-related features: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=220810
For 'settings' column please see MDL-35260, it's empty now because no core course format has settings yet.
Marina
Future major features
Course formats refactoring 2.4
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