Subcourse

Activities ::: mod_subcourse

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Dan Marsden,

Catalyst IT

Subcourse behaves as a graded activity. The grade for each student is automatically fetched from a final grade in another course. This allows course designers to organize the learning content into separate units.

Latest release: 4 months

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Subcourse is an activity module that represents the final grade obtained in another course. This allows to create "meta-gradebook" in one course, where all final grades from other courses are aggregated.

Grades are fetched automatically or can be fetched manually any time.
The grade type and other grade item settings are copied from the original grade total item and can not be changed.
Subcourse can be automatically marked as a completed when the referenced course is completed.
If the final grade in the referenced course is hidden, the associated subcourse activity grade is hidden, too.

This allows to apply the concept of grades aggregation to a next level and aggregate grades across courses.

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Dan Marsden (Lead maintainer)

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Catalyst IT

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David Mudrák: Original author and maintainer

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Matt Gibson

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Ирина Ткаченко
Wed, 22 Feb 2023, 10:43 PM
Hello!
Please help me solve the problem: when I try to install subcourse 4, I get an error /moodle/dmlwriteException

How can this be fixed?
Thank you
Annie H.
Thu, 27 Apr 2023, 4:45 AM
Hi, I really like the subcourse plugin. But I miss a function analogous to the one in settings >link to subcourse activity>redirect to referenced course. Is it possible to additionally include a function/button that redirects from the referenced course back to the main course? Does the option already exist and if so am I overlooking it. If no, is there an option to add a back to main course button/link ?
Thanks for any feedback
David Mudrák
Thu, 27 Apr 2023, 10:07 PM
Hi Annie. You can always make such a link manually (e.g. via a Label or a HTML block). Thing is, there are scenarios where one course may be a referenced course of multiple Subcourse instances (in other words, two Subcourses in two different courses both linking to the same referenced course).
Fa Ahmed
Thu, 15 June 2023, 7:22 PM
Hi, Can it offer support for Moodle version 4.1.x?
gerard van rooy
Mon, 10 July 2023, 5:37 PM
Hi there. I have 15 sub-courses running and all are connected to a certificate to indicating the results of different courses. But, I get a "Error writing to database. More information about this error" error. I don't know if the problem is with mysql or something else.
Please help
David Mudrák
Tue, 11 July 2023, 6:21 PM
Hello Gerard. Can you please report this as a new issue in the Subcourse tracker at Github and provide exact steps to reproduce? Also, if possible, please turn developer debugging on and report all the stack messages. TIA
Oleksandr Szpinkowski
Tue, 15 Aug 2023, 1:54 AM
Good day David.
Tell me please, is there a detailed instruction on setting up the subcourse?
I installed to version 3.11 but subcourse grades are not imported into the main course.
Annica Grimm
Thu, 24 Aug 2023, 8:38 PM
Dear David, could you tell me, when you will update the plugin to 4.1?
We would love to use it, but our Moodle is already on 4.1.4.
Paul Raper
Sat, 26 Aug 2023, 11:12 PM
Will this be updated for Moodle 4.2 or has it been taken into Core?
David Mudrák
Thu, 19 Oct 2023, 1:43 AM
Many thanks and good luck to Dan Marsden for taking over the maintenance of this plugin!
Carel-Piet van Eeden
Tue, 21 Nov 2023, 1:22 PM
This is going to be a gamechanger for us once it is available for Moodle 4.2 - really looking forward to seeing it!
Dan Marsden
Tue, 21 Nov 2023, 1:33 PM
@Carel-Piet, try the version in github and report any issues you have to the tracker. Thanks!
Carel-Piet van Eeden
Tue, 21 Nov 2023, 8:55 PM
@Dan - it works an absolute charm, thank you!
Fabian Auchter
Thu, 21 Dec 2023, 6:01 PM
Hy, I really like the plugin but we're unfortunately on Moodle 4.2. Are there any Upgrading plans?
Dan Marsden
Fri, 22 Dec 2023, 7:49 AM
@Fabian - the latest versions of our plugins will always be in github, however we don't always remember to update the plugins db entry - I've just updated the plugins db now with the latest versions, but in future please check the version available in the github repo - thanks!