Creating a space

Other settings in the ‘Edit course settings’ form

Settings that don’t appear in the Resource metadata form and aren’t discussed above are explained below.

Area	Setting	Comment
General	Header/Footer type	Please keep this setting as ‘Default’. Custom headers and footers only appear in projects where the OpenLearn Create team works with OU partners.
General	Location	Select a country from the drop-down list that your course is most relevant to.
General	Course ID number	This is only used to connect the course with external systems – if you don’t have a course ID, you can leave this blank.
General	Study planner start date	The setting determines the start of the first week of a course in weekly format. It also determines the earliest date that logs of course activities will be available. If your course is open with no start and end dates, you don’t need to use this. By default it is the date you create the course; you can change this by using the drop-down boxes.
General	Feature	You can ignore this setting.
Custom Header/Footer	Various	These settings are linked to the Header/Footer type setting above. You can ignore them.
Description	Theme options	You can change the theme colour of your course to one of the options in the drop-down list provided.
Description	External Message	You can ignore this setting.
Course format	Format	The course format determines the layout of the course page.
Course format	Hidden sections	This setting determines whether hidden sections are displayed to students in collapsed form (perhaps for a course in weekly format to indicate holidays) or are completely hidden.
Course format	Course layout	This setting determines whether the whole course is displayed on one page or split over several pages. By default it is set to ‘Show all sections on one page’.
Appearance	Force language	Several languages are available in OpenLearn Create. Selecting anything other than the default English translates some of the back-end menus and some of the front-end layout text to the chosen language. Please note that some language packs are more complete than others. Choose the language you need for your course from the drop-down list. For more information about the language packs on OpenLearn Create see ‘Language: can I change the language of my course navigation menus to the language of my choice?’ in the FAQs.
Appearance	Number of announcements	You can ignore this setting.
Appearance	Show gradebook to students	Many activities in the course allow grades to be set. This setting determines whether a student can view a list of all their grades for the course via a Grades link in the course’s Administration block.
Appearance	Show activity reports	Activity reports are available for every learner, listing forum posts, assignment submissions and access logs. This setting determines whether a learner can view their own activity reports via their profile page.
Files and uploads	Maximum upload size	This setting determines the largest size of file that can be uploaded to the course, limited by the site-wide setting set by an administrator. Activity modules also include a maximum upload size setting for further restricting the file size.
Completion tracking	Enable completion tracking	If you aim to track learner progress, you should change this setting to ‘Yes’. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be able to set completion conditions for activities and/or the whole course.
Groups	Group mode	This gives you the option to divide your learners into groups. No groups: There are no sub-groups; all your learners are part of one big community. Separate groups: Each group member can only see their own group; others are invisible. Visible groups: Each group member works in their own group but can also see other groups.
Groups	Force group mode	If you change this setting to ‘Yes’, the course’s Group mode is applied to every activity in the course. This prevents individual activities having their own Group mode setting.
Groups	Default grouping	This remains set at the default setting, ‘None’.
Role renaming	Various	This setting allows the displayed names for roles used in the course to be changed. Only the name is changed; each role’s permissions are not affected. New role names will appear on the learner’s page and elsewhere within the course. If the renamed role is one that the administrator has selected as a Course Manager role, then the new role name will also appear as part of the course listings.
Declarations	I agree to moderate learner contributions in collaborative activities	If your course features a forum, blog or other collaborative activity, you need to agree to moderate it – and to close it down if you are no longer able to do so. At least one collaborator in this course must agree to moderate public contributions. If no one agrees, then activities that allow public contributions, like forums, will not be available. Your consent is required before publishing the course.
Declarations	I agree to comply with The Open University website accessibility statement	Your consent is required before publishing the course.
Declarations	Approve publication	This is ticked by someone in the OpenLearn Create team to set your course to public view after it has been reviewed.
Declarations	Status	Don’t change this until you’re happy that your course is complete. Changing this from Draft to Published and clicking on either Save and return or Save and display will automatically send our team an email to let us know that your course is ready for us to check.

Once you’ve amended these, click on Save and display to return to your course.