This has to be one of the best modules I’ve seen for Moodle. It’s created by Sam Marshall from the Open University and still in beta but I simply had to install it.
It allows tutors to split a course up into sub-courses and add resources and activities within these sub-courses.
A bit like how I use meta courses already. But doing it this way reduces the overhead on the meta enrolments and easily allows resources to be moved around the course.
The tutor simply adds the sub-page through the “Add a Resource” activity.
The mod installed perfectly and I applied the patches that fix the redirect as suggested by Sam.
I wasn’t keen with the way it orphans the activies in the sub-page so I removed orphaned activities using CSS (I don’t like the orphaned activities in Moodle 2 period, I prefer to increase/reduce the number of topics instead).
Lastly, I added some CSS to my theme so that the links to the sub-pages use the same graphics we use for all of our unit links.
This mod has several advantages:
1)Long courses can be split up into units
2)No coding necessary
3)It auto creates the link to the new section
4) It auto creates the standard graphic we use for creating units
5) If you put assignments in a sub-course, or sub-courses, it will show from your main course gradebook, so everything is in one place.
6) You can have sub-courses, within sub-courses within sub-courses…great for complex courses or modules
7) You can use groups and groupings on the sub-course link so that only certain students on your course can see the sub-course
Thanks Sam, this mod is amazing. I’ll be keeping my eye on its development and maybe tweaking it some more myself.
