The studyplan editor has a number of advanced features that are available under the Advanced link. (Top-right on the screen in the editor view
These features are helpful to the administrator, but can be dangerous if abused.
Cascade cohort sync can be used to manually enrol cohorts and users linked to the study plan into the courses that are in the studyplan. If you do not have automatic cascading enabled, you must use this button to do it manually
It will create a cohort-sync enrolment to all courses in the studyplan for each cohort you have linked here. It can also automatically remove those enrolments when a cohort is unlinked from a studyplan. Individually linked students can also be cascaded down to the courses (if the feature is enabled). In those cases a manual enrolment is created for the users in each of the studyplan's courses. Those enrolments will never be automatically removed, since that might deprive a student of study content.
Force scales Only useful in Manual aggregation mode. In those cases you may want to enforce a specific scale to all selected gradables in the studyplan. This can save time manually updating all the gradables used in the studyplan to a standerdized grade scale. This tool allows you to do so.
Using the Backup studyplan you can backup an entire studyplan into a .json file.
Use restore studylines from backup to import the content (study lines and courses) from a studyplan into the current study plan
If you are proficient in editing json like data structures, you can manually edit the .json backups and then restore them as new courses.
This is mostly useful if you need to create multiple study plans with only minor changes, or predictable changes (like changing some text in course short names to link to new versions of courses)
Sometimes you want to delete an entire study plan. This can be done using the button found in the delete tab
By default, the short name of the course will be displayed in the study plan. However, often this name is quite long and has some prefixes or suffixes to distinguish it from other courses that were given in earlier academic years. If you want to display a simpler name, you can op to do so in two ways:
Go to Site administration -> Courses -> Studyplans -> Studyplan settings
Under Course display name you can select if you want to use shortname, ID field or any other previously configured custom field
The information in this category is mostly applicable to manual aggregation methods for study plans. If Moodle course completion is used, it is especially important to always configure grade to pass
Note that future versions may use this feature to automatically repair missing grade to pass in gradable activities.
Best practice is to set a grade to pass in all gradable activities in the studyplan. This way the entire system will know if a gradable activity wass passed or failed.
But since teachers are all human, this may occasionally (or regularly) be forgotten. In the absence of a configured grade to pass, the studyplan system will use the values configured here to determine if a grade was a passable grade.
Go to Site administration -> Courses -> Studyplans -> Configure grade & scale interpretation to configure it.
Each scale will need to have a completion threshold set. This is the scale value that starts a passing grade.
You can also configure certain maximum grade points to have a default passing value (completion threshold)
While scales are automatically added and cannot be removed, you can remove previously configured maximum grade points. To do so, check the delete mark next to it, and press save