Custom Periods
The custom periods are predefined by your site administrator and there can be one or multiple custom periods. The custom periods give a school/organization the flexibility to identify length of time for each unit based on specific requirements. Some organizations use class periods, days or weeks to identify the length of a unit. The range of selections is predefined at the system level, but a course editor can narrow down the time range for a course using the course description page. To access the course description edit page click on one of the “Course Description” link and then click on the “Turn editing on” button:
After clicking on the “Turn editing on” button, this screen appears:
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Period Type |
Choose one of the predefined custom periods suitable for the course. This is not displayed when there is only one custom period defined for the system. |
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Override Period Settings |
To change the minimum starting period and maximum period length for units belong to the course. |
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Starting Period |
This is disabled when “Override Period Settings” is not checked. Change to a value other than the system default is always the first period. This forces the unit to start on a period no earlier than the value set here. |
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Number of Periods |
This is disabled when “Override Period Settings” is not checked. The unit ending period is affected by this setting and it can be set to the maximum based on this setting or an earlier ending period. |
Note: Your site administrator may have already filled in the override settings for your course.
Unit Examples
Note: All examples below are based on the predefined “Class Period” which has a valid range of 1 to 365.
Example 1 – Unit page period range without overriding the custom period:
The starting period selection starts from class period 1 and the ending period selection ends at period 365:
Example 2 – Unit page period range with override set to: Starting period is class period 6 and Number of Periods is set to 10.
The starting period selection starts from class period 6 and the ending period selection ends at period 15:
