Moodle
  1. Moodle
  2. MDL-38501

Create a "Bulk course action" menu, allowing several operations (backup, delete, reset, change settings...)

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          MOODLE_25_STABLE
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          Description

          As we have a bulk user action, allowing several operations, i think it would be really useful to have a "Bulk course actions" menu in "Site Administration > Course", allowing to select several courses, and then make some actions on them.

          Actions could be : delete, backup (choosing options), reset (choosing options), change settings (start date, format, max file size, availability, language...)

          These are just some examples, there could be other uses.
          It would also be good if these actions could be achived by cli.

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            has been marked as being related by

            New Feature - A new Moodle feature which has yet to be developed. MDL-34786 Tool to clean up backup files in bulk

            • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
            • Open

            New Feature - A new Moodle feature which has yet to be developed. CONTRIB-605 Bulk Delete Course Utility

            • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
            • Development in progress

            Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-24586 Bulk hide/make-visible courses

            • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
            • Open

            Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-13114 Include bulk course create and remove with Moodle through the use of CSV files

            • Critical - Crashes server, loss of data, severe memory leak
            • Closed
            will be (partly) resolved by

            New Feature - A new Moodle feature which has yet to be developed. MDL-26936 Create a mass course reset administrative tool for resetting batches of courses

            • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
            • Open

            Improvement - An enhancement to an existing Moodle feature. MDL-11349 As an Admin, resetting all or some subset of courses at site level

            • Minor - Minor loss of function where workaround is possible
            • Open

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              Séverin Terrier added a comment -

              Some actions that could be done bulk.

              We could also think of (un)enrolling students (or other role) on selected courses.

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              Séverin Terrier added a comment - Some actions that could be done bulk. We could also think of (un)enrolling students (or other role) on selected courses.
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              Rajesh Taneja added a comment -

              Thanks for reporting this.

              I've put that on the backlog.

              In the meantime feel free to help us work on this issue. If you are able to provide a patch or links to your Git repository branch, please add a patch label so we will spot it.

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              Rajesh Taneja added a comment - Thanks for reporting this. I've put that on the backlog. In the meantime feel free to help us work on this issue. If you are able to provide a patch or links to your Git repository branch, please add a patch label so we will spot it.
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              Luciano Silva added a comment -

              Bulk delete would be very useful. We plan archive old courses in other machine and preserve 2 years on production. This option, by interface or command line would be nice!

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              Luciano Silva added a comment - Bulk delete would be very useful. We plan archive old courses in other machine and preserve 2 years on production. This option, by interface or command line would be nice!
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              Dan Poltawski added a comment -

              Please as note MDL-13114 which was integrated last week allowing much of this to be achieved with csv files.

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              Dan Poltawski added a comment - Please as note MDL-13114 which was integrated last week allowing much of this to be achieved with csv files.
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              Heiko Schach added a comment -

              Great idea. This would save many admins a lot of work.
              Especially bulk backup and delete of courses is important for us. We decided to keep our Moodle leaner by deleting old unused courses regularly. Before deletion we take a course backup for the archive.
              We found backadel (CONTRIB-605) very useful for this task, but I'm not sure if this will still work for Moodle versions 2.6+.

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              Heiko Schach added a comment - Great idea. This would save many admins a lot of work. Especially bulk backup and delete of courses is important for us. We decided to keep our Moodle leaner by deleting old unused courses regularly. Before deletion we take a course backup for the archive. We found backadel ( CONTRIB-605 ) very useful for this task, but I'm not sure if this will still work for Moodle versions 2.6+.
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              Michael de Raadt added a comment -

              As Rosie has left HQ, I'm opening this issue up to other developers.

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              Michael de Raadt added a comment - As Rosie has left HQ, I'm opening this issue up to other developers.

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