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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.
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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
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Wazza
I would like to get a total grade from a specific category in another course. Is this possible?
Ricardo Caiado
Any upgrade to Moodle 3.2?
Germán and Temudgin
Hi David,
I found it odd that the 'Useful links' section above did not show me a link to 'Contribute translations for the [laguage-pack]'.
But I did make a es_mx translation of 28 strings in AMOS smile
David Mudrák

Thanks David. That is good improvement suggestion. Can you please raise a feature request in the plugin's issues tracker at github. Thanks.

David Boggs
Like the plug-in, it was "almost" what I needed. The place it falls short is on activity completion, or maybe I missed a setting, you cannot set a passing grade before the activity is marked complete. The only setting is 'must have a grade', so if your sub-course has a number of graded activities and completion is set, the first graded activity in the sub-course marks the activity as complete. No very useful in providing your student a nice view of what they completed unless the sub-course only contains one activity.
David Mudrák

Hi Mike. It might be misunderstanding. The Subcourse does not fetch grades from specific activities in other courses. By design, it only fetches the final grade from the whole course. That is the point that turns the whole other course into a single unit / module in another course (thence the name "subcourse").

I do not plan to change this behaviour. Thanks for understanding.

Mike Condardo
AND ... it is not seeing the completed grades from the activity to the subcourse gradebook
Mike Condardo
Hi David -- I am using Moodle 3.0 and Subcourse 4.0.0 and I would like the Subcourse course to fetch grades on two specific activities from six different courses. But currently it is pulling ALL activities from all six courses. How do I narrow the "fetch of activities"???
David Mudrák

Hi Samuel. Can you please use the Github bug tracker of this plugin (see link above) and provide more details - especially the URL of your site and the URL you are redirected to. Thanks.

Samuel Torres
I'm on Moodle 3.0.3+ (Build: 20160407). When I add a subcourse and then click on the link it doesn't take me to the course, it just gives me a 404. Do I need to do any other configuration after installing the plugin?
David Mudrák

If by nesting you mean a course containing a link to a subcourse which in turn contains a link to another subcourse, then there should be no limit. Just avoid circular dependencies.

Alex Denby
My employers would like to use this for their site, but they want to know just how much nesting is possible with this activity.
Sarah Paliulis
Thanks for replying, David. I'm looking at the certificate's completion settings now and testing to see if that will work for us. Thanks for the suggestion.
David Mudrák

@Sarah Paliulis: I know that Quiz provides this "Require passing grade" condition. It would be good if that feature was implemented in a way that allows to use it in any activity module. That route will take a bit longer than simply copy & pasting the code from the Quiz into the Subcourse, but I believe it would be better solution.

Meanwhile (depending on what module you use for certificates), may it is possible to define the "Restrict access" for the certificate module. If I remember correctly, there was a way to define that the certificate module is not available unless a specific grade is achieved in another module.

David Mudrák

That's a very good suggestion Sarah. Let me look at it.