Custom Course settings

Custom Course settings

by Kimberley Johnston -
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Hi,

Apologies if this is the wrong forum to post this question in. I'm wanting to add some custom settings to my courses in Moodle. I note this question has been asked years ago in previous Moodle versions but I'm wondering if things have changed since reaching 3.4.

I'm wanting to add 5 or 6 custom settings to each course that would then help to create custom navigation systems for each user. I work for a large medical school and our students take a large number of individual courses each year. Each course is either a vertical/block modules or a programme and we have at least 3 seperate teaching campuses. So I'd be wanting to add settings like 'Course type: block, vertical, programme, other', and 'Location: x, y z' among other things. 

I have previously made custom course formats where you can add custom course format settings to the 'Edit settings' page of a course and I'd really like to do a similar thing for General settings without having to hack around with the core code.

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Re: Custom Course settings

by Richard Oelmann -
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You can either do, as you have done previously, and create a course format and add the settings in there

Or there is a plugin - although I dont think its in the database - that allows custom settings to be created on the course page, independent of the course format. I'll try to find the link for you, if I can as I was looking at it a few weeks ago but haven't got around to installing it yet.


Richard

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Re: Custom Course settings

by Kimberley Johnston -

 Thanks Richard that's much appreciated. Just to clarify - with the course format that adds settings to the Course Format portion of the settings - correct? I was hoping if possible to get them into the General settings or their own section. 

I better get searching for this plugin too.

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Re: Custom Course settings

by Emma Richardson -
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You could also use categories to separate the courses out that way...

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Re: Custom Course settings

by Kimberley Johnston -

I had thought about that and may investigate further. What I'm hoping to improve is about 18 hand coded labels that sit on the front page containing a table of each cohorts courses.

I've attached a screenshot of what I'm trying to improve - ideally in the end there will just be 1 table created on the fly for each user. We also have hand coded top navigation which is also dynamically create if the extra meta data was available. 

The meta data I envisage needing is:

  • Campus (4 locations )
  • Year being taught  (2017, 2018 etc)
  • Teaching year (2,3,4,5,6)
  • Course type (vertical, block, programme, other)

Some courses need to appear in multiple tables - hence my thought about classifying them by data in their settings so instructors etc could manage this themselves (could be carnage I know).


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Re: Custom Course settings

by Gareth Barnard -
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Hi Kimberley,

I don't believe that you can add to 'General settings' as that's fixed in '/course/edit_form.php' but you can add a new section underneath 'Course format' in the course format itself.  Collapsed Topics and the Grid format do this for the 'Reset' functionality, its a bit more complex than adding a setting to the 'Course format' section but possible.

Gareth

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