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<h1> Studyplan user manual</h1>
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<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link " href="index.htm">Main</a></li>
<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link " href="create-studyplan.htm">Creating a study plan</a></li>
<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link " href="view-studyplan.htm">Viewing a studyplan - for students</a></li>
<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link " href="teacherview-studyplan.htm">Viewing a studyplan - for teachers</a></li>
<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link active" href="advanced.htm">Advanced topics</a></li>
<li class="nav-item"><a class="nav-link " href="configuration.htm">Configuration</a></li>
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<h2>Advanced studyplan editing features</h2>
<p>The studyplan editor has a number of advanced features that are available under the
<span class="text-danger" role="button"><i class="fa fa-cog"></i>Advanced</span> link. (Top-right on the screen in the editor view</p>
<p>These features are helpful to the administrator, but can be dangerous if abused.</p>
<h3>Course manipulation</h3>
<p><b>Cascade cohort sync</b> 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</p>
<p>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.</br>
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.
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<p><b>Force scales</b> Only useful in <i>Manual</i> 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.</p>
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<h3>Backup and restore</h3>
<p>Using the <b>Backup studyplan</b> you can backup an entire studyplan into a .json file.</p>
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<p>Use <b>restore studylines from backup</b> to import the content (study lines and courses) from a studyplan into the current study plan</p>
<div class="generalbox alert alert-success"><b>PRO TIP:</b><br>
<p>If you are proficient in editing json like data structures, you can manually edit the .json backups and then restore them as new courses.</p>
<p>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)</p>
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<h3>Deleting a studyplan</h3>
<p>Sometimes you want to delete an entire study plan. This can be done using the button found in the <b>delete</b> tab</p>
<h2>Setting a simple name for the courses</h2>
<p>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:</p>
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<li>Display the courses <b>id</b> number</li>
<li>Display a <b>custom course field</b></li>
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<p>Go to <b>Site administration</b> -> <b>Courses</b> -> <b>Studyplans</b> -> <b>Studyplan settings</b><br>
Under <b>Course display name</b> you can select if you want to use <i>shortname</i>, <i>ID field</i> or any other previously configured custom field</p>
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<h2>Grade & Scale interpretation</h2>
<div class="generalbox alert alert-info"><b>NOTE:</b><br>
<p>The information in this category is mostly applicable to <i>manual</i> aggregation methods for study plans.
If <i>Moodle course completion</i> is used, it is especially important to always configure <b>grade to pass</b></p>
<p>Note that future versions may use this feature to automatically repair missing <b>grade to pass</b> in gradable activities.</p>
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<p>Best practice is to set a <b>grade to pass</b> in all gradable activities in the studyplan. This way the entire system will know
if a gradable activity wass passed or failed.</p>
<p>But since teachers are all human, this may occasionally (or regularly) be forgotten. In the absence of a configured <b>grade to pass</b>,
the studyplan system will use the values configured here to determine if a grade was a passable grade.</p>
<p>Go to <b>Site administration</b> -> <b>Courses</b> -> <b>Studyplans</b> -> <b>Configure grade &amp; scale interpretation</b> to configure it.</p>
<p>Each scale will need to have a <b>completion threshold</b> set. This is the scale value that starts a passing grade.</p>
<p>You can also configure certain <b>maximum grade points</b> to have a default passing value (<b>completion threshold</b>)</p>
<p>While scales are automatically added and cannot be removed, you can remove previously configured <i>maximum grade points</i>.
To do so, check the <b>delete</b> mark next to it, and press <b>save</b> </p>
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