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| A '''metacourse''' automatically enrolls participants from other "child" courses. Metacourses take their enrollments from other courses. This feature can populate many courses from one enrollment or one course from many enrollents.
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| For example, a course is part of a program (metacourse). Each time a student enrols in (or unenrols from) this course, they are enrolled/unenrolled from any metacourse(s) associated with it.
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| Please note that metacourse enrolments do not preserve groups and enrolment does not happen immediately.
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| ==Metacourse setup==
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| Teachers are able to choose whether a course is a metacourse via the "Is this a metacourse?" (yes/no) menu option in the [[Course settings|course settings]]. In Moodle 1.5 and 1.6, if a meta course is chosen, the [[Students|students]] page changes from listing/searching for students to listing/searching for courses. In Moodle 1.7 "Child courses" appears in the teacher's administration block.
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| ==Metacourse examples==
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| Metacourses may be used in a variety of ways:
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| * '''Scenario 1:''' X is a metacourse with Course 1 through 4 as normal courses with standard student enrollments. Students enrolling on these courses are automatically enrolled onto Metacourse X.
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| [[Image:Metacourses1_en.jpg|Standard Metacourse Usage]]
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| For example, a math teacher or department has 2 algebra and 2 geometry courses. The teacher or department wants course for each of these subjects. But they also want a generic space where they can post things for all of the students in all of their courses, perhaps including compulsory work for all students. By making algebra 1 & 2 and geometry 1 & 2 as each as part of a Math metacourse, they acheive this goal.
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| * '''Scenario 2:''' Metacourses 1-4 are linked to Y which is a normal course. Students enrolling on Course Y are automatically enrolled on Metacourses 1-4. This would be used, for example, when all five courses are intended to have exactly the same students.
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| [[Image:Metacourses2_en.jpg|Upsidedown Metacourse Usage]]
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| In both diagrams you can see students being enrolled normally into standard courses and then the entire student list of a course being added to the Metacourse.
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| * '''Scenario 3:''' One or more meta courses are used as a library of resources and activities. For example, the English department has collected material useful in writing papers. Teachers can direct or embed a link to a specific reference about citations, or how to select a topic for a paper or suggested reading compiled by students.
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| * '''Scenario 4:''' The metacourse feature can also be used "in reverse." Say you have a Diploma program that involves courses D1, D2, D3, and D4. In this case, you would create a "Diploma" course as a normal course (non-metacourse). You would then designate programs D1 through D4 as metacourses (plus completing the student enrollment task under Course Administration). When a student enrolls in "Diploma", he or she will be automatically enrolled in courses D1 through D4.
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| ==See also==
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| * Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48901 Metacourses?], [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=54389 Metacourses and Roles in 1.7] and [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=39438 Best reference for describing a metacourse] forum discussions
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| [[Category:Teacher]]
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| [[Category:Enrolment]]
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| [[es:Metacourses]]
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| [[fr:Méta-cours]]
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| [[ja:メタコース]]
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| [[ru:Метакурсы]]
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