Custom fields

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You can create custom fields and categories for use in various areas as follows:

  • Course - in Site administration > Courses > Course custom fields
  • Cohort - in Site administration > Users > Cohort custom fields
  • Group - in Site administration > Courses > Group custom fields
  • Grouping - in Site administration > Courses > Grouping custom fields
  • Content bank - in Site administration > Plugins > Content bank custom fields
  • Question bank - in Site administration > Courses > Question custom fields

New feature
in Moodle 5.2!
In Moodle 5.1 onwards you can create shared custom fields and categories for using in any of the above areas in Site administration > General > Shared custom fields.

By default only site administrators can configure custom fields. You can enable users in roles such as manager to configure these fields by allowing the configure custom fields capabilities.