Brickfield Education Labs

Introduction

This involves creating the activity, and some configurations for the following:

  • If users should be automatically enrolled.
  • If grades should be retrieved from the subcourse. 

 

Additionally, when the activity is accessed as a teacher, you can easily self enrol yourself in the configured subcourse.

Creating a subcourse activity

To create a subcourse activity:

  1. Go to a course.
  2. Enable Edit mode.
  3. Click Add an activity or resource.
  4. Click the LTS subcourse activity.
  5. Type in the subcourse name.
  6. Type in the subcourse description.
  7. In Select a Reference course, select the relevant subcourse.
  8. Enable or disable the Automatically enrol user setting. 
    1. Automatically enrol the user once the course has manual enrolment enabled.
  9. Enable or disable the Retrieve grades setting.
    1. Retrieves course grades and assigns them to the activity.

Viewing the selected LTS Subcourse options

To access the “LTS Subcourse” page:

  1. Go to a course.
  2. Click the relevant LTS Subcourse activity.

 

The subcourse options page, on the LTS Subcourse tab, displays:

  • Referenced course: The selected course for the subcourse activity.
  • Automatically enrol user: enabled or disabled.
  • Retrieve grades: enabled or disabled.
  • These three options may be edited in the Settings tab.
  • Enrol as specified role and visit course: the button to self enrol and visit the course.

 

Please note: this options page is shown to teachers and administrators only.

The LTS Subcourse module viewed as an editing teacher with the text ‘This LTS subcourse activity redirects and enrols students into other courses. This page is shown to teachers and administrators only.’, the settings table and the Enrol as specified role and visit course button. The table has one row per setting option and two columns: option, and setting.

Self enrolling in the subcourse

To self enrol in the subcourse:

  1. Click the Enrol as specified role and visit course button.