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

1. A full name, short name, ID number (for communicating with external systems), course category and course description may be set.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. The teacher can choose whether students can view their gradebook and activity reports.
5. A maximum upload file size for the course may be set (limited by the site-wide upload size limit).
6. If enabled by an administrator, a course theme may be selected.
7. A default course role, usually 'student' may be set.
8. If enabled by an administrator, an interactive enrolment plugin, such as Paypal may be set.
9. Enrolments and other role assignments may be taken from other courses.
10. Course enrolment may be restricted to a certain date range or with an enrolment key.
11. Guests may be allowed to access the course with/without an enrolment key.
12. 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.
13. A course language may be set, otherwise the course will be displayed in the language selected in a user's profile.
14. Course default settings may be set by an administrator.

Roles and permissions

1. Users may be assigned a role, such as student or teacher in the course, module or block context (plus additional contexts if allowed by the user's role).
2. Users with a particular role in the course are listed on the participants page unless their role assignment is hidden.
3. The permissions for a role may be overridden in the course, module or block context (plus additional contexts if allowed by the user's role) to allow, prevent or prohibit a particular capability.

Groups and groupings

1. Users may be organised into groups within a course. A user may be a member of more than one group or not in any group.
2. In addition to a name, each group may be given a description (displayed on the participants page), a picture (displayed in forum posts and on the participants page) and enrolment key (to automatically add users to the group when they enrol in the course).
3. Groups may be created automatically, with members being allocated randomly or alphabetically according to their first name, last name or ID number.
4. Groups may also be uploaded via a text file.
5. There are three group modes - no groups, separate groups (each group can only see their own group, others are invisible) and visible groups (each group works in their own group, but can also see other groups).
6. The group mode can be defined at two levels - course level (selected setting will be the default group mode for all activities defined within that course) or activity level.
7. If the group mode at course level is forced, then the option to define the group mode for individual activities is not available.
8. Groups may be organised into Groupings within a course.
9. An activity may be assigned to a particular grouping only. Users in other groups will not be able to view the activity.

Backup and restore

1. A course backup may be created with or without user data and including all or selected activities.
2. The backup may include all (site) users, course users or none.
3. The backup may include user files (e.g. assignment submissions), course files or site files used in the course (e.g. files linked to from questions in the question bank).
4. The backup may include course activity logs or grade histories.
5. Selected role assignments may be backed up in order to copy a custom role from one Moodle site to another.
6. A backup may be restored to a new course or to an existing course, either adding data to it or deleting it first.
7. All or selected activities may be restored with or without user data (conditional upon the backup file including the data).
8. The Import course data feature allows activities to be imported from any other course for which a teacher has editing rights.

Reset

1. The Reset course feature allows calendar events, course activity logs and/or course notes to be deleted.
2. Users may be unassigned selected roles and local role assignments and permissions overrides deleted.
3. Grades, grade items and grade categories may be deleted.
4. Groups and groupings may be deleted or group and grouping members removed.
5. Assignment submissions, chat messages, choice responses, database entries, forum posts, glossary entries, lesson attempts, quiz attempts, SCORM attempts, survey responses may be deleted.
6. Comments and ratings from selected activity modules may be deleted.

Reports

1. Course activity logs may be generated for all/selected participants, all/selected dates, all/selected activities, all/selected actions (view, add, update, delete, all changes).
2. Logs may be displayed on a page or downloaded in text, ODS or Excel format.
3. Live logs of course activity from the past hour may be generated, showing actions, participant names and IP addresses.
4. Participation reports may be generated for selected activities, looking back over a selected time period, for users with a selected role, showing all/selected actions (view, post).
5. A message may be sent to all/selected/all with no actions participant report subjects.
6. An outline report, complete report, the day's logs, all logs may be generated for a particular user via the Activity reports tab in their profile page.

See also

• Development:Features list - activity modules