Moodle

Custom (optional) fields for course settings

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Open Open
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9.4
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Course
  • Labels:
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  • Environment:
    Standard WAMP setup w/ Moodle 1.9.4 weekly 20090218
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

It would be really useful to have optional fields on the course setup page, just like the optional user profile fields.

Example: It would be useful for us to record the College's department (e.g. "Creative Arts") and section (e.g. "Dance" or "Fine Art") with a course. We have maybe 5 or 6 departments and 40-odd sections encompassing 700+ courses.

We do already use categories, but these are 35+ student-friendly categories so that a student can easily locate a course, but these categories have little in common with our corporate structure.

I'm not suggesting hard-coded fields, but something more customisable, just like the optional user profiles.

-Vaughany.

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Bruce Schmoetzer added a comment -

This would be extremely helpful for reporting. For example, we run summer workshops for faculty & staff. These workshops include: Name(s) of presenters, building & room (# or description), Start & End time, CPDUs (continuing education credits), stipend amount. We are required to generate a report for the administration on who in their departments have registered and for which workshop using the above fields. Custom fields would allow us more flexible reporting.

-Bruce

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Bruce Schmoetzer added a comment - This would be extremely helpful for reporting. For example, we run summer workshops for faculty & staff. These workshops include: Name(s) of presenters, building & room (# or description), Start & End time, CPDUs (continuing education credits), stipend amount. We are required to generate a report for the administration on who in their departments have registered and for which workshop using the above fields. Custom fields would allow us more flexible reporting. -Bruce
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Gilles-Philippe Leblanc added a comment -

This idea would be great. Indeed, we would be able to sort the courses by program, departments, faculties and by a quarter.

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Gilles-Philippe Leblanc added a comment - This idea would be great. Indeed, we would be able to sort the courses by program, departments, faculties and by a quarter.
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Hubert Chathi added a comment -

It would probably make sense to create a generic "custom fields" mechanism (similar to what ELIS has) that allows custom fields to be easily added to any other thing in Moodle (e.g. Course Categories, Cohorts, Assignments, etc.)

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Hubert Chathi added a comment - It would probably make sense to create a generic "custom fields" mechanism (similar to what ELIS has) that allows custom fields to be easily added to any other thing in Moodle (e.g. Course Categories, Cohorts, Assignments, etc.)

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