Merging Moodle Course Sites

What is a merged course?

Sometimes instructors teach more than one section of a course, but the materials and activities for all sections are the same. Rather than manage two (or more) separate Moodle course sites, instructors can create a merged Moodle course site containing enrollments from all other sections of a course. This will save time and effort by letting instructors manage all of their class materials and activities in one convenient place.

What does a merged course site provide?

• Course enrollments from multiple sections are housed in one Moodle course site.
• Each section of students will automatically be added to a Moodle group for their section within the merged Moodle course site.
• Student class lists will still be updated automatically by Banner through your original, separate class pages, and those updates will automatically flow into your merged Moodle site. If you need to manually add someone (like a librarian) to your merged class, you should add them to the original Moodle course page instead. Once you do that, Moodle will automatically place them into the correct group inside your merged course.

How do I create a merged course?

Professors can merge only courses for which they are listed with the Teacher role. If a professor is trying to merge a course for which they are not listed with the Teacher role, contact the Help Desk.

1. Go to one of the courses you wish to merge.
2. Select the “More” tab, and then click Create merged course shell.
3. In the “Courses to merge” field, enter the name(s) of the other section(s) of the course (e.g., Spring 2017 Calculus II), then select the appropriate course(s) from the list. You will see only the courses for which you are listed with the Teacher role. Note: You may need to click “Show more” to expand sections. 
   • The order in which you select the courses doesn’t matter.
   • If you select the wrong course from the list, click the “x” to the left of the name of the course to remove it.
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4. The Course merge tool will create the “Course full name” for you. However, if you need to make the name more specific (e.g., to include course section numbers), you may edit the “Course full name” before creating the merged course. The “Course full name” is not editable after the merged course site is created.
5. When creating the merged course, the original courses will become hidden from students. If you wish to make the original courses visible to students, uncheck the “Hide original courses from students” box.
6. Click the [Create] button.