moodle-local_course_templates

With this moodle plugin you can easily create courses based on course templates. The plugin also can be used to easily duplicate courses.

Usage

When creating a "Course Templates" category, you may hide the catgory, but you may not hide the courses themselves. Hidden courses cannot be duplicated, because they will throw a Course or activity not accessible. (Course is hidden) error.

Permissions

Note: Users (or roles) who should be allowed to create courses from templates need the following permissions:

• moodle/course:view

• moodle/restore:restorecourse

• moodle/backup:backupcourse

• moodle/backup:userinfo

• moodle/restore:userinfo

• backup user setting perms ?!

Other than that the following permission local to this plug-in are required:

• local/course_templates::use - To be able to create new courses from templates
• local/course_templates::view - To … well, it's used in process.php as a general check (can probably be replaced by the use permission)

Todo

• use constants instead of numeric codes for status (cf. process.php, index.php)

Permissions Details

moodle/course:view

course:view is checked on duplicate_course in moodlelib::require_login lib/moodlelib.php::require_login:

} else if (is_viewing($coursecontext, $USER)) {

moodle/restore:restorecourse

TDB

moodle/backup:backupcourse

TDB

// Capability checking.

    // The backup controller check for this currently, this may be redundant.
    require_capability('moodle/course:create', $categorycontext);
    require_capability('moodle/restore:restorecourse', $categorycontext);
    require_capability('moodle/backup:backupcourse', $coursecontext);

    if (!empty($backupsettings['users'])) {
        require_capability('moodle/backup:userinfo', $coursecontext);
        require_capability('moodle/restore:userinfo', $categorycontext);
    }