Course Structures

Course Structures

'mei a csanad komlos - 'aho
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Hi,

I have 5 courses, every course is last for 12 weeks. I'd like to allow new participants to join my 12-week courses constantly, without waiting for the course to end on the twelfth week. For example each course would start on every monday, so new participants would only wait for one week before they could enroll into one of the courses.

Additionally I don't want them to be able to access the forthcoming weeks, only the current week inside a course.

How do you recommend to set Moodle to operate this way?

If I use categories according to the starting date of the courses like:

1. Febr.10 - May 10
2. Febr 17 - May 17
etc.

then I have to create the same 5 courses with all the activites every time a new week starts ...

 

Thanks

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Re: Course Structures

'mei a Jai cheswick - 'aho
Yes thats somethng I am wondering about as well....
the categories idea you have posted would be easier if a whole course could be duplicated quickly.

Maybe there could be a way of placing each new course in a folder so that can be copied, renamed and linked to another newer course.
Maybe there already is...

I think until Martin has finished writing his thesis ( a few months ) all non-programmers will have to wait for new changes to be made.

Jai
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Re: Course Structures

'mei a csanad komlos - 'aho

Martin, answer to my post please. I need to solve this issue this week.

Thanks

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Re: Course Structures

'mei a Martin Dougiamas - 'aho
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The short answer is you can't easily do exactly what you want without writing PHP code to implement it. Group support is coming later this year which will help a lot in maintaining "cohorts" of students.

An idea that may help in the meantime is to use "topics" format instead of "weekly" format, and instruct the students to keep track of their own dates.

I wouldn't worry about restricting students from "looking ahead" in the course - some of them may find it helps their learning.
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