Moodle

Auto-Create Groups: Populate groups from Child Courses in META courses

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9.3
  • Fix Version/s: DEV backlog
  • Component/s: Groups
  • Labels:
    None
  • Environment:
    group/autogroup.php?
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

It doesn't appear that one can auto-create Groups from the child courses in META courses. On the auto-create page in Groups, (group/autogroup.php?) it would be an excellent improvement if users could select to "create groups from Child Courses" so that groups could automatically be created if there are several child courses in a meta course.

Issue Links

This issue is duplicated by:
MDL-17828 Student Groups in Metacourses based on it's childcourses. Minor Open
This issue has been marked as being related by:
MDL-17949 List of problems related to potential enrolment rewrite in 2.0 - META Minor Closed

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Dan Leighton added a comment -

Definitely!

This would save me many hours of administration. Please implement it as soon as you can.

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Dan Leighton added a comment - Definitely! This would save me many hours of administration. Please implement it as soon as you can.
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David Smith added a comment -

I agree, this is a modification we would find very, very useful.

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David Smith added a comment - I agree, this is a modification we would find very, very useful.
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Thomas Robb added a comment -

I see that this feature was recommended for 1.9.3, makes sense but still hasn't been implemented. Can it be implemented in 2.1? It would certainly save me, as well, considerable time when setting up child courses which require the same groups as the parent course.

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Thomas Robb added a comment - I see that this feature was recommended for 1.9.3, makes sense but still hasn't been implemented. Can it be implemented in 2.1? It would certainly save me, as well, considerable time when setting up child courses which require the same groups as the parent course.
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Joe Murphy added a comment -

This remains something which would be very useful. Our use case is that this is a frequent request when we have multiple faculty members using a single metacourse. (For example, 4 sections of the same Chemistry course.) Groups make the gradebook, quiz, and assignment modules much easier to navigate for the faculty members, but it takes significant human time to maintain the groups.

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Joe Murphy added a comment - This remains something which would be very useful. Our use case is that this is a frequent request when we have multiple faculty members using a single metacourse. (For example, 4 sections of the same Chemistry course.) Groups make the gradebook, quiz, and assignment modules much easier to navigate for the faculty members, but it takes significant human time to maintain the groups.
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Lisa Kidder added a comment -

Or perhaps the groups could be created when the child courses are added. A check box that says "Create group based on the course meta link" when you add the child course.

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Lisa Kidder added a comment - Or perhaps the groups could be created when the child courses are added. A check box that says "Create group based on the course meta link" when you add the child course.
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Gilles-Philippe Leblanc added a comment -

This task is marked for 1.9. Are you planning to do the same for version 2.x?

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Gilles-Philippe Leblanc added a comment - This task is marked for 1.9. Are you planning to do the same for version 2.x?
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Robert Puffer added a comment -

Yes, we are committed to groupings and available for this group only functionality and will continue to enhance it until Moodle core developers, in their wisdom kill this incredibly useful feature. Our CLAMP team is currently piloting 2.2.1 and we'll be working on porting our enhancements over the next four months.

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Robert Puffer added a comment - Yes, we are committed to groupings and available for this group only functionality and will continue to enhance it until Moodle core developers, in their wisdom kill this incredibly useful feature. Our CLAMP team is currently piloting 2.2.1 and we'll be working on porting our enhancements over the next four months.

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