Course Approval
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In 1.6, only Administrators can approve courses. If you want to allow Course Creators to approve courses, change the following:
in /course/pending.php, line 11:
if (!isadmin()) { to if (!iscreator()) {
and in /course/edit.php, line 22
if (!isteacheredit ($course->id)) { to if (!isteacheredit && !iscreator ($course->id)) {