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Restriction by course completion
This availability condition makes it easy to show modules or sections only when a user completed a course. A course certificate is a good sample, but it can also be used to close discussion forums, hide quizzes or exams when a user finished a course.
Course completion is something else than doing all activities, read the docs on using course completion first! Also check the global documentation about conditional availability conditions.
New:
You can also restrict modules or section based on the completion of other courses. (Moodle 5.0+ only)
Installation:
- Unpack the zip file into the availability/condition/ directory. A new directory will be created called coursecompleted.
- Go to Site administration > Notifications to complete the plugin installation.
Troubleshooting:
- Goto "Administration" > "Advanced features", and ensure that "Enable completion tracking" is set to yes.
- Make sure "Enable completion tracking" is set to "yes" in the course settings.
- Goto "Administration" > "Course administration" > "Course completion", and configure the the conditions required for course completion. Note: you must set some conditions, you cannot just set the "completion requirements" option at the top. Save.
- Goto "Administration" > "Course adminiatration". Make sure you can now "Course completion" listed under "reports". If you cannot see this report, then course completion has not been set correctly.
- Start restricting
Warning
This plugin is 100% open source and has NOT been tested in Moodle Workplace, Totara, or any other proprietary software system. As long as the latter do not reward plugin developers, you can use this plugin only in 100% open source environments.
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this plugin restricts access until or after THIS course is completed. If you want to restrict access upon another course, you will need another plugin: restrict access upon other course completion.
R
exceçao - class availability completion/condition not found
Sorry my Portuguese in non existing.
You have an problem with the availability_completion plugin, not with this this plugin (we use availability_coursecompletion)
What to do?
- undo the changes you made to the availability_completion plugin
- check if other availability plugins depend on the availability_pluin are up to date
R
3.11---> 4.1
Exception : Class '\availability_coursecompleted\frontend' not found
cheers
Daniel
THX for the problem report. Can you report a complete error report in the tracker (https://github.com/ewallah/moodle-availability_coursecompleted/issues). I'm particularly interested in your PHP version.
Because the exception starts with a \ this is an auto load problem that should go away after you purge your caches.
Can you confirm?
R
Is this correct, or am I missing a way to do this? Thanks
You are correct. with this plugin you can only restrict access to modules and sections.
If you want to give access to a course, you need an enrol plugin: moodle-enrol_coursecompleted will do this job for you.
We'd like to do one other thing when the course is marked "Complete": put a mark in the gradebook to show a "Pass" for the student. Your documentation indicates that you can do other things by using this course-completion-restriction plugin ("close discussion forums, hide quizes or exams when a user finished a course"), but I can't see any examples for those. Do you know how we could set a grade in a gradebook?
Sorry, this plugin cannot give grades, Moodle would simply not know where the grade was coming from. Because only activities can generate a grade, you'll need a module (lesson/quiz/workshop/...) to do the job. Perhaps the most simple way would be to add a quiz where students always pass?
R
This way your gradebook, availability restrictions, groups and groupings, course completions, ... will continue to work fine.
I am contacting you about the Moodle plugin Restriction by course completion.
I tried installing it on a Moodle 4.5.11 platform. The installation seems to work correctly, but unfortunately the restriction does not appear when clicking on the access restrictions settings for an activity or section.
To check this further, I also tested the plugin on a Moodle 5.1 test platform, and everything works perfectly there: the restriction is available and can be used as expected.
This is unfortunate, because the plugin would meet my needs very well, but I do not plan to upgrade to Moodle 5.1 for the time being.
Do you know whether this behaviour on Moodle 4.5.11 is already known? Is there any workaround, adaptation, or version compatible with Moodle 4.5?
Thank you in advance for your reply, and thank you for your work on this plugin.
Best regards,
Nicolas Thorel
Did you checked the troubleshooting? https://github.com/ewallah/moodle-availability_coursecompleted/blob/main/README.md
I will try to set up a github workflow to proove this plugin is working fine.
R
All tests for the MOODLE_405_STABLE branch pass on github: https://github.com/ewallah/moodle-availability_coursecompleted/actions/runs/25438919941 So I think you have course completion not enabled.
R
Thanksyou for this plugin
I have been using the availability_coursecompleted plugin and noticed a potential UX improvement. Currently, the prerequisite course is displayed as a plain-text shortname.
To help users navigate faster, I have locally modified the code to display the fullname and wrap it in a clickable link. This allows students to jump directly to the required course.
However, my changes are overwritten every time I update Moodle. Could you please consider integrating this into the core code?
My suggested change in availability/condition/coursecompleted/classes/condition.php:
// Original code:
// $name = format_string(get_course($this->courseid)->shortname);
// Suggested improvement:
$courseurl = new \moodle_url('/course/view.php', array('id' => $this->courseid));
$formattedname = format_string(get_course($this->courseid)->fullname);
$name = \html_writer::link($courseurl, $formattedname);
or if you have a better suggestion
I will try that suggestion
thankyou