We will soon be implementing automatic course creation using the IMS Enterprise plugin. As such, we need to make sure users do not modify the Course ID number as the plugin uses that ID to match the course and enroll users. Is there a way to lock down that field?
Matthew,
See this document: http://docs.moodle.org/23/en/Course_settings
ID number
The ID number is an alphanumeric field. It has several potential uses. Generally, it is not displayed to students. However, it can be used to match this course against an external system's ID, as your course catalogue ID or can be used in the certificate module as a printed field.
The capability moodle/course:changeidnumber controls whether a user can edit the ID number.