Itamar Tzadok

Ah! You're absolutely right. It is worth a tracker issue.

Has just been fixed. See MDL-24569.

Have you considered using a meta-course for the shared content and child-courses for the colleges? With this approach each college has its own course site (results, tracking etc.) for its students and tutors and the shared content on the meta-course can be linked from the that course site. hth

For example, adding the script below to the list template displays only the first few words, at least 20 characters and up to 30 characters followed by ..., of the content of of the fourth cell in each entry.

<script type="text/javascript">
var entries=document.getElementById('itemList').firstChild.rows;
for (var i=1;i<entries.length;i++){
entries.cells[3].innerHTML=entries.cells[3].innerHTML.replace(/([\s\S]{20,30}\w*\b)([\s\S]*)/,"$1 ...");
}
</script>

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