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.
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Hello Stephanie. Yes. The relevant part of the form is actually shown on one of the screenshots here. The primary use case is that the Subcourse activity becomes completed once the associated course is completed. So once the relevant course is completed, it can unlock other modules in the "parent" course, for example.
Hello Phil. Thanks for the good question! The Subcourse module does one thing and tries to do it well. The use case you describe seems like something that e.g. https://moodle.org/plugins/enrol_coursecompleted could provide.
No, the plugin does not look after enrolment. And this is actually intentional feature, not a bug
Please set up the enrolment in a way that fits your needs best. Some people do it manually, some use https://docs.moodle.org/en/Course_meta_link and there are event more ways to control it.
Does the plugin enroll the students automatically to the subcourse, or do I have to do this manually?
I am happy to announce that the version 9.0.0 comes with the Moodle Mobile App support.
Hello Keenan. Good to hear you found it useful. Yes, the Moodle App support is something I plan to do as soon as possible as a good opportunity to get familiar with that area. Please watch https://github.com/mudrd8mz/moodle-mod_subcourse/issues/19 for the progress on it.
First off - love this plugin; there's no easier way to make the same content available in multiple courses without duplicating it. My organisation is hoping to make greater use of the Moodle App, so I wanted to know if there are any plans to add app support.
Thank you Leonardo for the nice words and for the suggestion. May I ask you to report your particular use-cases for the suggested feature in the plugin's issues tracker at https://github.com/mudrd8mz/moodle-mod_subcourse It will need to be thought through as it may not be trivial to design a good mapping of all possible events happening in one course into an activity in another course.
@Tish Kirkland - Yes, it can. The module can be configured so that the Subcourse activity is marked as complete once the associated course is completed. You need to make sure that cron is running as this evaluation happens asynchronously in Moodle.
Can this be used for activities that don't require grading, but do require completion, e.g. viewing a document, or contributing to a Glossary?
Thanks
Thank Marina for raising your issue. I must admit I don't fully understand what is going wrong in your course. Can you please describe the details and ideally also provide some screenshots into a new issue in the plugin's bug tracker at https://github.com/mudrd8mz/moodle-mod_subcourse/issues We can continue the discussion there. TIA