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Course Life Cycle
Administration tool ::: tool_lifecycle
Maintained by 
Learnweb – University of Münster, 
Thomas Niedermaier
Course Life Cycle is a moodle plugin, which has the purpose to help you with the execution of reoccurring tasks on your moodle platform. Possible use cases are (not limited to):
Deleting courses at end of life (including asking teachers for permission).
Doing a rollover at the end of a semester.
Automatically setting an end date for courses.
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Course Life Cycle is a moodle plugin, which has the purpose to help you with the execution of reoccurring tasks on your moodle platform. Possible use cases are (not limited to):
- Deleting courses at end of life (including asking teachers for permission).
- Doing a rollover at the end of a semester.
- Automatically setting an end date for courses.
For instance, it helps in getting rid of old and unused courses the right way! While the right way means YOUR way! The plugin allows you to define a certain workflow, which tells which steps to take before a course should actually be deleted. These steps might include:
- Only consider courses, which meet certain criteria (e.g. very old courses)
- Ask the teachers of the courses if they still need them
- Create backups of the course
- Delete the course
Thereby, the plugin is highly modular and allows you to specify your own steps and triggers (conditions), to define workflows tailored for your needs.
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Contributors
Learnweb – University of Münster (Lead maintainer)
Thomas Niedermaier: Maintainer
Tobias Reischmann: Former main developer
Luca Bösch: Contributor
Jan Dageförde: Contributor
Susanne Schenk: Contributor
Yorick Reum: Contributor
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A BIG thank you!
You saved my day with this plugin!
All the best,
Ricardo
Thank you for this great plugin!
In the description you mentioned the plugin can automatically set an end date for courses. I did not find a corresponding setting / step to do so.
So how do i set up a Workflow which sets the end date for courses in a category?
Best wishes
Nico
thanks a lot.
Currently, there is no subplugin available that is able to do what you want.
You can have a look at https://github.com/learnweb/moodle-tool_lifecycle/wiki/Documentation-for-Developers
There is the documentation, how you can write your own subplugins. However, some of the most recent features of the subplugin API is unfortunately not yet documented.
You might want to have a look at other subplugins, how they solve problems. The list of currently maintained subplugins is here:
https://github.com/learnweb/moodle-tool_lifecycle/wiki/List-of-Additional-Subplugins
Best wishes
Tobias
I see that you cannot delete the backups, but someone has requested it as an enhancement. I'd vote for that!!!
I created a simple workflow with a manual trigger and one step that creates a backup of the course. For some weird reason I get many copies of the backup, even though I've requested it only once and they are all dated Wednesday, 31 December 1969, 4:00 PM.
I also cannot seem to get the icon to work on the trigger setup. I've using '/pix/i/repository' as well as 'core/repository' but neither work for me.