Link subject(course) to multiple courses

Link subject(course) to multiple courses

by Justin Cloete -
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Hi

Let us imagine i have 5 subjects (Courses) Course A, B, C, D and E
To each of these I have added assignments, slides, workbooks ect.

I have 2 different courses:
Course 1 consists of A, B, C and D
Course 2 consists of A, C and E

I know that I can make a backup of the contents in A and restore it to Course 1 and 2.
My quesion is this is there a way that I can link or embed A into course 1 and 2 so that if I update the content of a it automatically adds the new content to course 1 and 2

Basically what I am going for is the ability to have Master copy of a subject which I update and once updated all courses that contains that subject will be automatically updated. (Including adding new resourses, updating assignments, ect)


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Re: Link subject(course) to multiple courses

by Richard Oelmann -
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Your best bet is probably to keep the content in A, B, C, D and E and then create Course 1 and 2 as overarching courses which contain metalinks to enrol those students on the relevant 'content' courses.

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Re: Link subject(course) to multiple courses

by Justin Cloete -

Hi Richard


Thanks for the reply, how would I go about doing this, I have never tried creating an overarching course.

I am using Joomla and Joomdle to manage the front end of the website, do you by any chance know what effect this will have on the way a course is dispaid by Joomdle.

How does moodle display an overarching course (does it display as a single course or multiple courses


Thank you

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Re: Link subject(course) to multiple courses

by Richard Oelmann -
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Its simply another course, but you enable course meta links as the enrolment method on the 'child' courses and link them together

https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Course_meta_link

I haven't used joomdle, so not sure how it would deal with these, but they are just standard courses, really, so shouldn't be a major hurdle.

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