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Subcourse

Maintained by 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.
Price option: Free

Supports Moodle 2.4-5.0 See all versions
Latest release: 5 months ago
Installations: 4133
Downloads (last 90 days): 1351

Frankenstyle name: mod_subcourse
Activities

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We've been looking for a way to bundle our online courses and give students a certificate for completing all of the courses in the bundle. This module looks great and almost meets our needs. Our only issue is that it allows students to get the certificate even if they received a failing grade in one of the individual courses because the only activity completion option is "require grade." Is there any way to add the option of "require minimum score," which is available for other types of activities in Moodle?

Thanks Alain for sharing your work! I submitted your strings via lang.moodle.org for review and inclusion into the French Moodle language pack. Once they are accepted by the French language pack maintainers, they will become available.

Hi,
I translated in French. Here is the file : http://www.numerique.uha.fr/file/subcourse.zip

Thanks for pinging me Elton. I just released the version v3.1 of the Subcourse module. Behat tests pass on both Moodle 2.8 and 2.9.

Hello David. Thank you for this very useful module. We would like to begin using it after our upgrade to 2.9 next month. Before installing it, our Moodle service provider wants to be assured that it will work on 2.9. Has anyone tried it out?
As the release notes say, it's actually just a trivial removal of a deprecated function call (contributed by Vadim Dvorovenko). More features (mostly based again on Vadim's work) are to come in v2.7.0 (for Moodle 2.7), hopefully soon.
Hello David ... what are the changes between this version of the module and the previous? Thanks.
Whether there will be a version for moodle 2.6+?
I just went into the main course again and now it is displaying the correct score. I did not change anything but might have looked at a different report than I did earlier. Odd that it would change from a 70 to the correct score of 80 on its own. I will test with other SCORM courses and let you know if it continues to have issues.
The course total in the SCORM course shows an 80 also for the course total.
@doug please check the gradebook in the SCORM courses. The subcourse fetches the course final grade. Does it display different value than the subcourse?
David, I have set up a course that has SCORM courses as subcourse activities. When testing the grading, the SCORM course hasan 80 which is passing but the subcourse displays a 70. There is only one attempt in the SCORM course.
Eugene, please note the correct procedure to translate add-ons is to use lang.moodle.org site. Translations are not shipped with add-ons any more. Thanks!
Hi Vernon
correct. Set the "cron" field to zero in that table. But also remember to do it every time you update the module (because it is set to the valued defined in version.php during the upgrade). However, I would like to see if there is something we can improve in the cron performance here. Would you mind reporting two issues for me please? One for the ability to disable cron via settings, the other that would describe your problems with the current cron implementation. Thanks in advance.
Hi David,
Awesome work. Been using this for years but have to stop using it due to the load on our cron.
We don't need it to run automatically so I was wondering if i set the mdl_modules cron field to "0" if that would make it manually only? Do you have any experience with this?
Cheers.