updating multiple courses simultaneously

updating multiple courses simultaneously

Greig Frankham -
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I am using Moodle 2.6.1 with Essential 2.6

I will be running a course in 3 different time slots, however the courses are identical. So, I will have a course in the morning from 8 till 12, another one at 12.30 till 4.30 and another one at 5.00 till 9.00.

All three courses will run on the same day.

Due to time constraints, I will still be developing the course while it is running, trying to stay one week ahead at all times. What I need to do is build one instance of the course, yet have it running as three separate courses.

With the online system I am used to working on, you had a master course, and when a new class was established, the course was "mirrored" for that class. If you modified the master course, all other instances of the course reflected the changes. If you copied a course, then it would be a new instance. You could modify the copied course without affecting the other ones.

Is it possible in Moodle to change one course and have the others reflect that change. I'd be surprised if it didn't allow it, but haven't found any reference to it yet.

The only alternative to this would be to have all students in the one course. Each class will have 15 students, so it means I'd have 45 students in one big class.

 

Can anyone advise a workaround for this please. Maybe there is something about classes within courses, or something like this I haven't found yet.

 

Greig

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回复Greig Frankham

Re: updating multiple courses simultaneously

Greig Frankham -

Ok, so now I am stuck on groups.

The only place I can find groups is on Front page setting under Users.

HOME/FRONT PAGE SETTINGS/USERS/GROUPS

Nowhere in a course can I find a group, how to create a group or how to attach a group created in the previous front page groups.

 

I have a test course I have created that I want to attach groups to.

If I go to HOME/COURSES/TEST CATEGORY/TEST COURSE, on the right hand side I have a navigation block. Under participants all I have is course blogs, notes and my name or profile.

In Moodle Docs, it says to do the following:

  1. Click the 'Create group' button in Administration> Course administration > Users > Groups
  2. Add a group name and optional description (displayed above the list of group members on the participants page), enrolment key and picture (displayed on the participants page and next to forum posts)
  3. Click the 'Save changes' button
  4. Select the group to which you want to add participants, then click the 'Add/remove users button
  5. In the "Potential members" list, select the users you want to add to the group. Multiple users may be selected using the Crtl key.
  6. Click the Add button to add the users to the group

The problem is, where is administration. Is it my front page administration, Site administration or somewhere else.

I've tried to add an administraion block to the course but that does nothing. It won't create the admin block, even though I have unlocked that in plug-ins block.

Can someone help me please. I really like Moodle, but what started out as appearing intuitive is becoming frustrating spending more time trying to understand the moodle docs and descriptions or things not there or the way it works than creating content.

 

I look forward to some help.

Greig

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回复Greig Frankham

Re: updating multiple courses simultaneously

Christine Healey -

Hi Greg - Groups are in course administration and you need to be on the frontpage of the course you created, and in an appropriate role (usually 'teacher'). Click on 'turn editing on' - which is at the top of your screen and you should see a block called 'add a block'. Choose 'Administration' from the dropdown menu and your Administration block should appear.

Now for the Groups

Go to Administration/Course Administration/Users/Groups

Create three groups and name them (e.g.,morning, afternoon, evening) You can add some information about that group within the settings here and I advise you to do that. In a couple of years you won't remember which group was which! I use the qualification level and the cohort date (Level 3 Feb2014) in the name itself.

You can also create one extra group for 'test' and enrol a 'testuser' in there. That's useful when you want to look at how activities, completion settings and grades etc are working for your learners.

Now go back to Course settings in Administration/Course Administration/Edit settings and make sure the Groups bit is set to 'separate groups'. If you want all learners to talk together in a particular Forum, then set 'Force group mode' to 'no'. Otherwise, use 'yes' and your learners will never see each other in the course. I advise using 'yes' and then, if later you wish they could all talk together, set up another course with just the open forum and link to that from a Label.

 

 

 

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Re: updating multiple courses simultaneously

Greig Frankham -

Hi Christine

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, I have tried that method you suggested, however it doesn't work. I think my version of Moodle has some issues.

If I go to the course and click on the editing button, I do indeed have an "add a block" block. administration however isn't an option.

I can then go to Home/Site admin/Plugins/blocks/manage blocks and under protect instances, I can unprotect  the Administration block.

I then go back to the course, click on the editing button, go to "add a block" and administration is now there. The problem is, when I select this block, nothing happens. it just sits there.

 

This seems to be my problem. I seem to know how to get there, it just doesn't work.

 

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

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回复Greig Frankham

Re: updating multiple courses simultaneously

Barbara Taylor -

You need to be in your course.  Look in the Administration block for Users.  Click on Users to expand the options.  You will see Groups.  Select it.  Click on the Create Group Button -> Give it a name for the first class period -> click on the Save Changes button.  Repeat for the other time slots.  Once you have the groups created, click on the first group -> on the right click on the Add/Remove users button -> select the student -> click on the Add button -> repeat until the students have been added

Click on the Back to Groups button.  Select the next group -> repeat the steps above

You can then limit assignments, forums, and anything else by group.

 

Barbara

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