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Courses
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For students to take a quiz, it is imperative for the moderator to create a course first.
A course can contain several modules and a module can contain several lessons and/or quizzes.
To create modules, lessons and quizzes go to the :doc:`creating_lessons_modules`
and :doc:`creating_quiz` section of the documentation.
Setting up a new course
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To create a course, click on the Add New Course button on the moderator's dashboard. This will lead you to a create add course page, where you need to fill in the following fields.
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* **Name**
Name of the Course
* **Enrollment**
Open enrollment is open to all students. Enroll Request requires students to send a request which the moderator can accept or reject.
* **Active**
If the course should be active for students to take the quiz. The status of the course can be edited later.
* **Code**
If the course should be hidden and only accessible to students possessing the correct course code.
* **Instructions**
Instructions for the course
* **Start Date and Time for enrollment of course**
If the enrollment of the course should be available only after a set date and time
* **End Date and Time for enrollment of course**
If the enrollment of the course should be available only before a set date and time
Features in Courses
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Click on the Courses link on the navigation bar.
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This page shows all the courses created by a moderator and all the courses allotted to a moderator.
The following features are available for courses
* **Course Name**
Click on course name link to view all the enrolled, rejected and requested students list. Moderator can accept or reject the student.
* **Module Name**
Click to edit a module added to the course
* **Lesson or Quiz Name**
Click to edit a Lesson or Quiz added to the course
In edit quiz you can also attempt the quiz in two modes -
* **God Mode** - In God mode you can attempt quiz without any time or eligibilty constraints.
* **User Mode** - In user mode you can attempt quiz the way normal users will attempt i.e.
* Quiz will have the same duration as that of the original quiz.
* Quiz won't start if the course is inactive or the quiz time has expired.
* **Add Quizzes/Lessons for <module-name>**
Click to add/delete lessons or quizzes.
* **Design Course**
Click to add/delete modules of a course.
* **Add Teacher**
Click to add teachers for the course. The teachers can edit and modify only the specific course that are allotted to them.
* **Clone Course**
Click to create a copy of a course along with its modules, lessons and quizzes.
* **Teachers added to the course**
This shows all the teachers added to a particular course.
* **Download CSV for the entire course**
This downloads the CSV file containing the performance of all students in every quiz for a given course.
* **Edit Course**
Click to edit the details of an existing course.
* **Deactivate/Activate Course**
Click to deactivate or activate the course.
* **My Courses**
Click to show all the courses created by you.
* **Allotted courses**
Click to view all the courses allotted to you.
* **Add New Course**
Click to open course form to create new course.
* **Add/View Quizzes**
Click to view all the quizzes created by you or add new quiz.
* **Add/View Lessons**
Click to view all the lessons created by you or add new lesson.
* **Add/View Modules**
Click to view all the modules created by you or add new module.
Design a Course
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Clicking on **Design Course** will show the below page.
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**Available Modules** contains all the modules that are not added to a course.
To add a module to the course select the checkbox besides the desired module to be added and click **Add to course** button.
**Chosen Modules** contains all the modules that are added to a course.
Following parameters can be changed while designing a course:
**Order** - Order in which modules are shown to a student.
To change a module's order change the value to a desired order in the textbox under **Order** column and click **Change order**.
**Check Prerequisite** - Check if previous module is completed. Default value is **Yes**.
For e.g., Assuming a course contains modules **Demo Module** and **Python module** in the given order; a student has to first complete **Demo module** to attempt **Python Module** if the **Check Prerequisite** value for **Python Module** is checked **Yes**.
**Currently** column shows the current value of **Check Prerequisite** which in this case is **Yes**.
Select the checkbox from **Change** column under **Check Prerequisite** and click **Change Prerequisite** button to change the value.
To remove a module from the course select the checkbox beside every module and click **Remove from course** button.
Features in Course Details
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Click on a given course name to go to the course details page.
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Following are the features for course details -
* **Requests**
This is a list of students who have requested to be enrolled in the course. Moderator can enroll or reject selected students.
* **Enrolled**
This is a list of students who have been enrolled in the course. Moderator can reject enrolled students.
* **Rejected**
This is a list of students who have been rejected for enrollment in a course. Moderator can enroll rejected students.
* **Upload Users**
Create and enroll users automatically by uploading a csv of the users. The mandatory fields for this csv are - **firstname, lastname, email**. Other fields like **username, password, institute, roll_no, department, remove** fields are optionals.
* **Send Mail**
Moderator can send mail to all enrolled students or selected students.
* **View Course Status**
View students' progress through the course.