I am currently trying to help my school into the open source community, so I've just set up Moodle on Linux and will be trying things out on various year groups.
What I need (and I can't seem to find the information for them) is in a year group have sub-categories. For example Year 7 course needs to have within it course 7.1; course 7.2; course 7.3 and course 7.4
At the moment I can't see how to do this. Please help
Thank you
Sorry to be totally ignorant - what is the difference betweeen the two approaches
Basically - I will have a Year 7 consisting of all pupils in year 7. They will then progress through various courses (7.1; 7.2 etc.) during the year.
Hope this helps, if you need more info just let me know - thanks I appreciate such a swift response
Thanks Anthony, a lot to read there.
Year 7 are 11-12 year olds at the start of Key Stage 3 (2 years 7 & 8)
They will follow a programme of study in ICT. So what I want (this may not be the best way - please tell me if I am way off track here) is a year 7 course that has sub-sections. So when a year 7 pupil logs on they go to the year 7 and then select the course that they are currently on (7.1, 7.2 etc).
I may be doing everything wrong, if I am beat me, tell me off for being stupid and then tell me the right way to do it.
Cheers for all the help...
Hello 
I am having the same problem with 1.7. What I want and I think my colleuge here wants is a catorgory called ICT with a sub category Year 7 followed by the courses unit 7.1, unit 7.2 etc. The unit 7.### courses will be studied by the students in numerical order rather than students being allowed to mix and match. Eventually the unit 7.## will be scorm modules rather than static web pages however I can not set up the multiple sub categories. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Jon
Course sub-categories may be created by adding a new course category then using the "move category to" drop-down menu to move the category inside another category.
Similarly, sub-sub-categories etc. may be created.
Richard - After re-reading that discussion, it looks like your situation is very similar. I would create a Category called Electrical Engineering and then 2 subcategories for Level 2 and Level 3. I would consider each Unit to be its own course (weekly format). I would actually go ahead and contain the course introduction, syllabus, and enrolments in each of the units. Alternatively, you could create a metacourse called Level 2 and another called Level 3 and store the Course Introductions and Syllabus there. The Unit 1 and Unit 2 courses for each level would be enroled as the child courses in the metacourse. Managing of the student enrolments will take place in each of the unit courses. To control who has access to what, you could use an enrolment key such that until the student completes Unit 1 they do not have the enrolment key; however, once completed, the instructor could send the enrolment key to them so that the student could begin the next unit. Does that makes sense? Peace - Anthony
Hello Anthony
Yes I did ....... very helpful and many thanks! I think I will go with the meta course structure. Just to run it past you to ensure I understand you correctly. A category called Electrical Engineering with 2 sub categories Level 2 and Level 3 each of which will be designated a meta course. Then to each of these sub categories there will be 2 further sub categories for the two Units - unit1 and unit 2. Am I right in saying that:
* the two unit courses are in effect sub sub courses of the category Electrical Engineering?
* enrollments made at unit level will bubble up (as they say) to the level meta course?
* will the whole of this structure have to be set up by the site administrator?
Many thanks for your help! Rick
Hello Anthony and Richard.
Thanks for the detail explanation.
I have a similar problem, and would appreciate your advice:
working on Ver 1.9 Beta and following this discussion I created a course with few sub courses, where the sub-courses are Meta course.
The structure is intended to help course creators. (Meta courses are part of library of courses, to be used in different classes).
Students – and even teachers - should work in the “full” course level only – e.g. Student enrolment and grades are on the course level. Grades should be aggregated from the library mini-courses and displayed as one grade book.
I folowed option 4 in http://docs.moodle.org/en/Metacourses , .
Enrolment work as expected – (student enrolled to the diploma have access to D1 .. D4 courses.)
What I can’t get is grades: I need one view of grades for few library courses – but I can only display grades for each mini-course in its on context.
My questions:
Thanks for any help.
Udi
