Adding a new course: Difference between revisions

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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. Administrators and managers (i.e. users with a role for which the capability moodle/course:delete is allowed) can delete courses. A Course creator can delete courses they have created themselves.

To delete a course (as an administrator or manager):

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".

There is no user interface for course creators to delete courses they have created, however they can do so by editing the URL of the course from http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/view.php?id=N to http://yourmoodlesite.net/course/delete.php?id=N (replacing 'view' with 'delete').

Course requests

Course request screen

The course request feature can be enabled by an administrator in Settings > Site administration > Courses > Course request.

An admin can set the default category for course requests, whether users can select a category when requesting a course, and who can receive notification of course requests (from a list of users with the capability moodle/site:approvecourse).

A 'Request a new course' button will then appear on the 'All courses' page. The All courses page can be accessed via a link in the Courses block.

If course requests are enabled, by default all authenticated users can make course requests. See Course requester role for details of how to restrict users who can make course requests.

Bulk course creation

It is not yet possible to create courses in bulk, however this feature is coming in Moodle 2.6 (MDL-13114).

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 *Enter the [[Course settings|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)==
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 [[File:Courserequest.png|thumb|Course request screen]]The course request feature can be enabled by an administrator in ''Settings > Site administration > Courses > Course request''.
-The default category for new courses requested can be selected from this screen, and users who will be notified when courses are requested can also be selected here. (These are users with the capability [[Capabilities/moodle/site:approvecourse|moodle/site:approvecourse]].)
+An admin can set the default category for course requests, whether users can select a category when requesting a course, and who can receive notification of course requests (from a list of users with the capability [[Capabilities/moodle/site:approvecourse|moodle/site:approvecourse]]).
-In Moodle 2.4 onwards, the course request form can include the option to select a course category.
-A  button will then appear on the All courses page for users to request a new course. The All courses page can be accessed via a link in the [[Courses block]].
-By default, all authenticated users can make course requests (after you have enabled it). It is controlled by the capability [[Capabilities/moodle/course:request|moodle/course:request]].
-==Bulk Course Create Options==
-As of Moodle 2.2, this is not an out of the box feature.
-The main Tracker item: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-13114
-Some forum discussions:
+A  'Request a new course' button will then appear on the 'All courses' page. The All courses page can be accessed via a link in the [[Courses block]].
-#Import files to batch create courses and users http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=27333
-#Bulk / automated course creation with phpMyAdmin http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=27333
-#Bulk Course Creation in v1.9 http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96622
-#Bulk Course Upload tool question http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=91850#p572909
-#Bulk Course Upload tool for Moodle 2.0 http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=91850&parent=744931
-#uploaduser.php enhanced to upload also courses http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=128317
-The latest real lead (as of February 2012) is this:
+If course requests are enabled, by default all authenticated users can make course requests. See [[Course requester role]] for details of how to restrict users who can make course requests.
-:''Piers Harding added a comment - 26/Sep/11 3:23 AM  Hi -
+==Bulk course creation==
-:This may or may not be of any use to people on this thread, but I create a basic course uploader for 2.x modelled on the user uploader, as I needed something for NZ schools - it's available here https://gitorious.org/moodle-tool_uploadcourse/moodle-tool_uploadcourse for the curious.
-:Cheers,
-:Piers Harding.'' From the tracker thread MDL-13114
-Old module/plugin: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=395
+It is not yet possible to create courses in bulk, however this feature is coming in Moodle 2.6 (MDL-13114).
 ==See also==

Documentation