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Adding a new course

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Add/edit courses

By default a regular teacher can't add a new course. To add a new course to Moodle you need to have either Adminstrator, Course Creator or Manager rights.

Adding a course

To add a course:

  • Go to Settings>Site Administration>Courses>Add/edit courses
  • Choose the category where you want your course to be. For more information see Course categories
  • Click the "Add a new course" button
  • Enter the course settings, then click the "Save changes" button.
  • On the next screen, choose your students/teachers to assign to the course.


Deleting a course(s)

A regular teacher can't delete a course. To delete a course you need to have either Administrator or Managerrights. A Course creator can delete courses they have created themselves.

To delete a course:

  • Go to Settings>Site Administration>Courses>Add/edit courses
  • Click the course's category (to drill down the category tree) and find the course you wish to delete. Or use the "Search course" textbox at the bottom of the category list.
  • Click the "X" icon to the right of the course's name. to delete it.


You can delete multiple courses by:

  • Creating a new (temporary) category. You can name it "To be deleted".
  • Select and move the "About to be deleted" courses to that category ("To be deleted").
  • Delete the category ("To be deleted") and choose "Delete ALL - cannot be undone".

Course requests

An administrator can enable the course request feature in Settings > Site administration > Courses > Course request. This results in a "Course request" button appearing for all users on the All courses page. Course requests may then be viewed by an administrator by clicking the "Courses pending approval" button on the All courses page. Alternatively, course request notification can be set up.

By default, all authenticated users can make course requests (after you have enabled it). It is controlled by the capability moodle/course:request.

Preventing teachers from editing course settings

Any/all of the following fields - course full name, short name, ID number and category, summary - may be locked to prevent teachers from editing them. To do so:

  1. Access Site Administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles.
  2. Click the edit icon opposite the teacher role.
  3. Change any/all of the capabilities moodle/course:changefullname, moodle/course:changeshortname, moodle/course:changeidnumber, moodle/course:changecategory, moodle/course:changesummary from allow to not set.
  4. Click the "Save changes" button at the bottom of the page.

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