Trevor Cunningham's List: Moodle Options

• 3 1 course that gets its enrolment from 4 other courses
• 4 "Merged course" / 1 course that consolidates enrollment from multiple other courses

  • I think this is what we're trying to do now, and can see where it makes enrollment a challenge.

• 1 course that gets its enrolment from 4 other courses

   

  X is a meta course and Courses 1, 2, 3, 4 can be normal courses with standard student enrolments. These courses can contain resources, and activities that are specific to those courses, but they may also only contain enrolments. Students enrolling in Courses 1 or 2, or 3 or 4, are automatically enrolled onto Meta course X when the course is associated as a child course to Meta course X. The meta course is dependent upon its enrolments from each of the non-meta courses, the child courses.  

   

  

   

  For example, a math teacher has 2 algebra and 2 geometry courses and wants a "home room" to place things of interest for all of their students. The teacher creates a meta course called "Teacher's home room" and links the algebra and geometry courses as the "child" courses. 

   
• • While I can see this will aid enrollment, we should revisit our course naming conventions and approach to organizing these courses into categories.

• "Merged course" / 1 course that consolidates enrollment from multiple other courses

   

  For a course with multiple sections - that is, a course where the same material is taught to students enrolled in several separate sections/courses - it is sometimes desirable to create a "merged course" that is used by students across all sections. This assumes that there is no section-specific information. 

  To create a "merged course," select one existing course/section that will become the merged metacourse. In that course: 

   
  1. In the Settings module, navigate to Course administration -> Users -> Enrollment methods. 
  2. Use the Add method drop-down menu to select Course meta link. 
  3. Use the Link course drop-down menu to choose one of the other sections/courses you wish to merge into the metacourse. 
  4. Repeat the preceding steps as necessary for additional sections/courses. 
   

  To make it clear which course is the merged metacourse, go to that course and: 

   
  1. In the Settings module, navigate to Course administration -> Edit settings. 
  2. Change the Course full name appropriately (consider "[Course Number] - [Course Name] - [Course Date]" e.g. "CSSE101 - Introduction to Computer Science - 201210") 
  3. Click Save changes. 
   

  To hide the unused sections/courses, go to each course and: 

   
  1. In the Settings module, navigate to Course administration -> Edit settings. 
  2. Use the Availability drop-down menu to select This course is not available for students. 
  3. Click Save changes.

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