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When you select the Designer format in a course, additional course prerequisites settings become available in the course settings. These options provide a visual representation of prerequisite courses, automate enrolment, and add navigation features. Prerequisites are other courses that are defined as completion conditions in the course settings.
Available settings
Display course prerequisites
Disabled – Prerequisites are not visible.
Above course contents – Prerequisites are displayed on the course page.
On separate tab – A prerequisites page is linked in the secondary menu.
Display the prerequisite tab title
Add a custom tab title for the prerequisites page in the secondary menu.
Order
Define the position of the prerequisites in the secondary menu.
Position 0 is always the course itself.
With a negative number from –1 to –10, you can place the prerequisites before the course tab.
With a positive number from 1 to 10, you can place it after the course tab.
Prerequisites title
Set a custom title displayed above the prerequisites.
If none is set, "Prerequisites" is used.Prerequisites info
Add additional information displayed above the prerequisites title.
Automatically enroll students
Controls whether participants are enrolled into prerequisite courses when they enroll in the main course.
Never
Only if not already enrolled
Always
Unenroll students from prerequisites
Controls whether participants are removed from prerequisite courses if they are unenrolled from the main course.
Disable
Enable
Group students prerequisites
Automatically add students to a group in the prerequisite course with the name of the parent course.
Designer creates the group if it does not exist.Disable
Enable
Open prerequisites in new tab
Disable – Prerequisite courses open in the same tab.
Enable – Prerequisite courses open in a new tab.
Back to main course
Adds a menu item in the secondary navigation of the prerequisite course to return to the parent course. If a prerequisite belongs to several parent courses, the link points to the most recently accessed parent course.
Disable
Enable