Hi all, 

I am running a Moodle training course for an organisation and I have noticed that the different Availability settings in our activities make things really complicated for new educators. 

For example:

Assignments use : Allow submissions from, Due date, Cut-off date, Remind me to grade by;

Forums use : Due date, Cut-off date;

Quizzes* use : Open the quiz,  Close the quiz; 

Course settings use: Course start date, Course due date;

I can't describe how messy things are and how many mistakes I see when trainers need to end the course at a date and forbit further contribution to activities two weeks later. 

See, the organisation's rule for the course participation is: Course has an official end date, but participants are allowed to finalise the course two weeks after the course end date, while they will maintain access to the course for a couple years I think. 

It would  have been really helpful if all the date sections were named the same "Availability" for example, and all the activities including the course settings had:

Start date

Due date

Cut-off date

I know the request is quite generic, but I wasn't sure how to make this suggestion.

:}

Anna

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• Note that "Availability" section in Quizzes is called "Timing".