Restore settings of course after un-conclude of course

[ReneeBerg]

We are currently looking into all the possibilities to shorten the terms in which course are active.

In testing it appears that, when a course is concluded via the conclude button and then is un-concluded again (e.g. by accidental concluding), the "settings" of the course is not restored as before. 

For example the course is not shown on the dashboard and stays in the "previous enrollments". The designer and teacher can not edit the course and students can not participate (e.g. hand in assignments). 

The course is within the active term.

[gouldt · Accepted solution]

Our courses are set up a little differently, but I can tell you something that may help. We don't conclude our courses until one month after the official end date. This is a part of the course creation. Students are automatically inactivated when their grades are posted. If a student needs continued access to the course after the official end date an incomplete is posted which doesn't inactivate the student. The student will continue to have access to the course for one month or until the course concludes unless we manually create an additional section, extend the date on that section, and add both the instructor and student to that section. Once the end date on the section passes the student will lose access. 

Basically, access to the course is controlled by the date of the section of the course, it overrides the date of the course. Students must be enrolled in that section to have continued access.

It is possible to just adjust the date of the section to continue access, we choose to create a separate section.

[ReneeBerg]

Reading your response, I think that indeed working with the section dates is a better solution for shortening a course period than using the conclude button.

Thank you for your reply @gouldt.

[NoahBoswell]

Hi @ReneeBerg ,

I find this quite interesting, I'm not experiencing the same behavior on my end. All of my settings restore to how they were before the course was concluded. You're talking about the settings on the main course settings page, right? Or are you referencing feature options?

Noah

[ReneeBerg]

@NoahBoswell 

As admin I do not see any differences, but in the course roles these are a few things that are different after un-concluding a course:

• The course stays under 'past enrollments' in the course list
• As designer / teacher I can not make any changes in content or add content
• As designer / teacher I can not add people to the course
• As student I can not participate anymore
• etc.

While testing this situation again, I noticed, that when I conclude a course, all the people are removed in the people list of that course... So that solves the issue that the course is in past enrollments and they don't have the rights as before, since they do not have an enrollment to that course anymore...

[dbrace]

Hi @ReneeBerg,

Has your question been answered by what @gouldt provided? Are you still experiencing a problem?

-Doug