Moodle in English: Add new setting to course settings page

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Hi!

I'm working on a local plugin and i need to add a new setting (a text input field) to the course settings page (/course/edit.php). Is it possible to do that from a local plugin, without changing the /course/edit.php and /course/edit_form.php files?

The documentation on local plugins (http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Local_plugins) says that a local plugin can add admin settings to any settings page - loaded last when constructing admin tree. I think it means that I can use a local plugin to add a new text input field to the course settings page, for example.

Basicaly I need a way of adding new fields to a settings page (like course settings page, and later on course category settings page, etc) without making changes to core files. Is this possible?

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Local plugins can add settings anywhere in the 'site admin' settings tree (including new settings pages in that tree), but there is no support for adding settings to a course settings page.

Enrolment plugins can add items to the course settings page, or you can use a block to add extra settings on a different page, or you can modify core code to add settings to the course page. I'm not aware of any other options.

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Should also note that Course formats can also inject settings into the "Course settings" form. I believ that was introduced in the course format refactoring done in Moodle 2.4.