Dear all, I've started to collect and document all the local customization that we did here at San Francisco State University after running a big moodle installation site for over two years now. Regarding course module here are some (not all) issues that we found (and these problems still exist in most recent moodle 1.8+):
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-9922
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-9925
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-9939
Hope some of you might find these useful. Thanks!
To save on mouse-clicks, these are:
MDL-9922: Change the default setting of meta course to No when backing up a course
MDL-9925: Moodle redirect instructor to system configuration page if restore is cancelled in middle
MDL-9939: Clicking on scales link in a course for administrators is really slow (fix included)
They are all one-line changes. Not really my place to say if we want them in core. They all look quite sensible, but whether they changes are better than the current behaviour for everyone is unclear.
MDL-9922: Change the default setting of meta course to No when backing up a course
MDL-9925: Moodle redirect instructor to system configuration page if restore is cancelled in middle
MDL-9939: Clicking on scales link in a course for administrators is really slow (fix included)
They are all one-line changes. Not really my place to say if we want them in core. They all look quite sensible, but whether they changes are better than the current behaviour for everyone is unclear.
Here is another one that commented out two lines: 
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=72841
By the way if people think they are sensible, could you please vote for these issues (MDL-9922, MDL-9925, MDL-9939)? I just thought that new moodle users would really appreciate these changes for a more smoothly "out-of-the-box" first impression about moodle. After all the more users we have, the better, right? Just my 2 cents.
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=72841
By the way if people think they are sensible, could you please vote for these issues (MDL-9922, MDL-9925, MDL-9939)? I just thought that new moodle users would really appreciate these changes for a more smoothly "out-of-the-box" first impression about moodle. After all the more users we have, the better, right? Just my 2 cents.
Voted in favor of all of the above (especially the metacourse setting!)
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