Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Marc Couture -
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Hi,

We just updated to Moodle 2.6 from 2.5 this week.  We often delete courses from the admin interface, as we manage a large installation with thousands of course sites.  To complete this task, we usually search for a course from the category management interface (under /course/management.php).  However, there is no search field available on this page anymore, the page only shows sorting options (first unpleasant surprise):

 

Even more unpleasant, there is no simple way to delete a course from a search results page (after going through /course/search.php): there are only two icons on the left of search results after clicking the top-right "Manage" button, e.g. Edit or Hide:

 

I eventually found out I need to click on the course name, then I see a "Delete" link on the far right:

 

Isn't there a better way to do this?

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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Hi Marc,

I could not quite believe it, but you are correct.  I did find that you get a delete icon for a course when you view a category, but that means going through each category one by one.  Perhaps a Moodle Tracker issue?

One thing I found on the category listing page is the ability to delete the category even with courses in it.  I wonder if that action would delete the courses too and if so you could create a 'bin' category, move the courses in there and then delete it?

Cheers,

Gareth

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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Gareth J Barnard -
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Yes!.....

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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Mary Cooch -
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Hi both. Tracker issue is here if you'd like to vote for it: MDL-43566

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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Marc Couture -

Thank you Mary, I have just voted for this function to come back. smile

Cheers,

Marc C.

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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Mike Brinkman -
Has this functionality been restored? The issue tracker says it's closed. I'm on 2.7.1 (build 20140714) and wanted to know if I need a patch to get this working again. I don't want to upgrade to 2.8 yet.
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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Mary Cooch -
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Looking at the tracker, it seems to have been fixed for Moodle 2.7.3, if you are able to upgrade to that?

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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Mike Brinkman -

Thanks Mary, helpful as always. It's not a big deal, we'll wait until the end of the semester to upgrade.

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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Marc Couture -

@Gareth: this would indeed be helpful when we mass delete courses, thanks for the suggestion!

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Re: Moodle 2.6: searching for and deleting courses

by Miki Alliel -
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I was surprise to see there is no delete icon after searching a course. This issue is really needed

thanks - just voted to

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