Moodle Admins – Update custom course field values easily using this plugin

Moodle LMS is one of the most customisable and flexible open-source Learning Management system. It is backed by a strong community and a vast collection of contributed Moodle plugins. The LMS can be completely customised to meet the requirements of any industry or company or educational institute.

In Moodle 3.7 version, Moodle HQ team introduced a new feature with support for custom course fields which can be defined globally by the admin and which can then be set on the course settings page of a particular course by teachers and managers. However, setting or changing custom field values for a large number of existing courses manually on each course settings page is a tedious task.

So, if you are also a Moodle administrator and looking for a solution to bulk update the course custom fields, you can use the Set Course Fields Moodle Plugin. The Moodle admin tool plugin allows managers to set and overwrite custom course field values for all courses in a category, including subcategories.

You can download the latest version of the ‘Set Course Fields’ Moodle plugin from this link in official repository. After installing the plugin, it is ready to use without the need for any configuration.

To use the plugin, administrators and users who have the tool/coursefields:setfields will find a new menu item ‘Set course fields’ in the secondary menu of each course category overview page.

Kindly note that this plugin will create an adhoc task in your Moodle LMS to set all the course fields in the background. This requires that cron be enabled. After the next cron run, the course fields of all courses in the given course category are set to their new values.

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