Create and manage learning areas
If there is more than one learning group within a course, you can summarise and organise them into learning areas.
Learning areas can be used to control visibility and accessibility rules for learning resources or course elements. The use of learning areas helps you facilitate the configuration of these rules, since you can select comprehensive learning areas rather than individual learning groups.
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Requirement description: In a transregional course, users are asked to enrol in different learning groups according to their place of residence. After the enrolment, they should only be able to see course sections relevant to their group. To finish the course, all users must complete a final exam. This exam is available in different versions, each tailored to the requirements of the respective federal state. The fact that there are different test versions, however, should be hidden from the users.
Implementation of the requirement:
In the standard view, an author can see all course elements contained in the course (image author 1). |
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A user can only see the course element enrolment at this stage as well as all available learning groups (image user 1). |
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Only after the enrolment in a group, users can see the relevant course sections available to them (image user 2). |
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This configuration can be done by restricting the visibility of these course elements to the appropriate learning groups (image author 2). |
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While this option could also be used to configure the access to the final exam, it is recommended to use a learning area for this kind of configuration. This approach is especially convenient if a larger number of different groups are concerned or if the assignment or number of groups is subject to change during the course (image author 3). |
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Create learning area
Learning areas are created similarly to learning groups. Again, there are two options to do this:
- You can use the group management to create learning areas for your course.
- Via the course editor, you can create group-dependent visibility and access rules for course elements as well as new learning areas.
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2. Select the button New learning area in the table head of the page Groups in the course. |
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3. The window New learning area opens. 4. Assign a title and optionally a description. 5. Select the related learning groups by clicking the checkbox in front of the desired groups. 6. Close the configuration with a click on Finish. |
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Edit learning area
You can also assign learning groups to a learning area or remove existing assignments later on.
Proceed as follows:
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4. To open an existing learning area for editing, click on the title of the learning area. Alternatively, you can also use the edit button in the column Actions. |
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5. The learning area opens in the editing mode. 6. Perform new group assignments or remove existing ones in the area Assigned Groups. Simply select or unselect the checkbox in front of the desired learning groups. 7. In this view, you will additionally find an info icon in the upper right corner, which provides access to the group mailing list if the option for sending emails to group users has been enabled in the system. 8. Confirm your settings with Save. Use the group mailing list: This button opens the group email addresses. Using these email addresses, you may also send messages from an external email programme directly to the users of the selected group.
To send an email to the members of the group, just click on the link provided. Your email programme opens automatically and the selected group address is entered as the recipient of the new email.
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