Moodle in English: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Flotter Totte - Friday, July 22, 2016, 5:55 PM

We have created a new plugin called "Course templates".

Goal of the plugin is:

Easily let users (with appropriate rights, e.g. admins) create courses based on course templates
Provide an easy way to duplicate courses
Make the creation of new courses more efficient

How it works (the 2 main steps for creating new courses):

The plugin is freely available (GPL)

Download

We are in the process of submitting the plugin to the moodle.org plugin database.You can also find the download link to the plugin here (you need to create an user account) : http://www.emeneoplugins.chocolatelms.com/

Flotter

Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Milou van Roosmalen - Wednesday, July 27, 2016, 7:48 PM

Hi!

This is exactly the plugin I was looking for!

I installed the plugin but unfortunately it is not working. When I click on 'Add Course' I navigate to a page where I can't select anything.

Any suggestions how I can make this work? Thanks!

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Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Flotter Totte - Friday, July 29, 2016, 1:12 PM

Hoi Melou,

Probably you did not create the category for the template courses. To make i work create a course category "Course templates" and then put at least one (template) course inside. Then it works.

All the best,

Flotter

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Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Milou van Roosmalen - Friday, July 29, 2016, 3:11 PM

Hi Flotter,

Thanks for your help. With the category Course templates it is working now!!

Thanks and regards,
Milou

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Ang: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Anders Kjaer - Friday, October 14, 2016, 3:38 PM

Hi,

Tried to signup for this plugin but all I get is "Enrolment application successfully sent. "

How do I download this plugin?

Best regards

Anders

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Ang: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Anders Kjaer - Friday, November 18, 2016, 6:05 AM

Excellent plugin!!

One little problem though, it only works for site admin, not for teacher, hangs at creating course.

What rights is needed for the teacher role to be able to use the templates?

Anders

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Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Flotter Totte - Sunday, October 22, 2017, 3:05 PM

Dear all,

Thanks to the great support of Sunny Teacher and moodle.org, the plugin is now officially available in the moodle plugin repository:

https://moodle.org/plugins/local_course_templates

I recommend everyone to upgrade to the new official plugin as it includes some security fixes.

How to upgrade from the unofficial version to the official version

We needed to change the name of the plugin slightly. Therefore you need to do the following:

Uninstall the old version (you need to do a complete uninstall ie. including removing the code folder from your server)
Install the new version from moodle.org

How to support maintenance and future development of the plugin

There are many ways how you can support the maintenance and future development of this plugin

Like it (ie add the plugin to your favorite plugins. This will increase the amount of likes)
Recommend it to others
Be an active member in this forum (ie. report problems and help others)
Buy us a coffee
Finance enhancements of the plugin (feel free to contact us directly)

All the best,

Flotter

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Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Karol Kamiński - Monday, November 13, 2017, 6:56 PM

Hi,

Who can add course templates?

As a course author I don't see such an option.

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Re: Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Emma Richardson - Monday, November 13, 2017, 9:26 PM

Oh, you are right. The link is in site administration which you cannot see as course creator. I added a link to it on my site for my managers to be able to access and that works perfectly. You might ask your admin to do the same.

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Odp: Re: Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Karol Kamiński - Thursday, November 16, 2017, 3:39 PM

I added a link. Now i have an error:

"Sorry, but you do not currently have permissions to do that (Edit course template)

More information about this error"

I added permissions for course author. Nothing changed.

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Re: Odp: Re: Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Emma Richardson - Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 11:24 PM

Perhaps you are linking to the wrong place? The link should go to https:/yourdomain.com/local/course_templates/index.php

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Re: Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Hugo Ribeiro - Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 10:22 PM

Hi there,

Dumb question... What's the best way to achieve this?

I'm having trouble adding an html block with a link and making it visible only for managers via permissions.

Cheers,

Hugo

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Re: Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Emma Richardson - Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 11:41 PM

Have you figured this out? I would love to know how to do that too!

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Re: Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Hugo Ribeiro - Thursday, January 25, 2018, 4:52 AM

No I haven't.

The link was right and the manager had permission. But the main issue was I was not being able to publish that link through an html block wich should be visible on the dashboard to managers only.

The workaround ended up being to use https://moodle.org/plugins/local_boostnavigation (wich I was already) and publish a new drawer item available for a cohort only. That system wide cohort is made up by managers.

At the end I ended with a cool solution, but I remain with problems having an block on the dashboard visible for a role only (actually I did it but the manager needed to turn the edit mode on.

Please let me know If you have any doubts.

Oh right, this on Moodle 3.2 with Boost.

Cheers,

Hugo

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Re: Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Emma Richardson - Thursday, January 25, 2018, 5:29 AM

So they can access the Course template now? I should look at the plugin - I am using Fordson which gives you the ability to add links to the navdrawer but not to limit them to certain roles/cohorts - that would be really cool!

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Re: Odp: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Hugo Ribeiro - Thursday, January 25, 2018, 6:06 PM

Hi all,

First of all, my mistake, this is Moodle 3.4.

Yes they can! Since:

1- they have a Course template capable role like manager -> access to the page itself

2- they are in a cohort with permission to see the menu link -> see link

I've read a post somewhere saying Fordson was built based on the plugin, but maybe they didn't ported that.

Kind regards,

Hugo

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Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Flotter Totte - Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 3:05 PM

Hello everyone.

If you have time, can you test the plugin with moodle 3.4? Maybe it is still possible to receive the 3.4 plugin early bird batch

Greetings,

Flotter

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Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Emma Richardson - Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 11:06 PM

Tested successfully in 3.4 with full debugging turned on and no errors.

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Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Flotter Totte - Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 9:06 AM

Hi Emma,

Thanks for testing. I had updated the plugin page right after I saw your post some days ago.

Best,

Flotter

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Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Emma Richardson - Tuesday, November 28, 2017, 9:14 PM

You are welcome! Thanks for the plugin!

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Re: New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

by Arto Tervahonka - Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:55 PM

Any possibility allow teachers use this course creator role?

-Arto

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New plugin: Course templates / duplicate course

How to upgrade from the unofficial version to the official version

How to support maintenance and future development of the plugin