Course administration tests
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This page lists current Moodle features in a format suitable for setting up test cases (see Jira as a Test Case Management Software).
Course settings
- A full name, short name, ID number (for communicating with external systems), course category and course description may be set.
- There are six course formats - weekly, weekly with table-less layout, topics, social (oriented around one forum), SCORM (for displaying a SCORM package) and LAMS.
- The number of sections displayed on the course page may be set, also whether hidden sections are shown in collapsed form or completely invisible. A course start date may be set.
- The teacher can choose whether students can view their gradebook and activity reports.
- A maximum upload file size for the course may be set (limited by the site-wide upload size limit).
- If enabled by an administrator, a course theme may be selected.
- A default course role, usually 'student' may be set.
- If enabled by an administrator, an interactive enrolment plugin, such as Paypal may be set.
- Enrolments and other role assignments may be taken from other courses.
- Course enrolment may be restricted to a certain date range or with an enrolment key.
- Guests may be allowed to access the course with/without an enrolment key.
- The number of days a student is enrolled in a course may be specified. Users may receive a notification email when their enrolment is about to expire.
- There are three group modes for the course - no groups, separate groups and visible groups. The selected setting will be the default group mode for all activities defined within that course.
- A course language may be set, otherwise the course will be displayed in the language selected in a user's profile.
- Course default settings may be set by an administrator.