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- You are limiting your options when it comes to setting the course completion criteria. For example, if in a given course, your completion criteria includes (a) viewing an online module, (b) completing a quiz AND (c) filling a course evaluation form, then setting your completion criteria will be a bit more tricky because you'll need to specify that people can (a) view the English OR the French module, (b) complete the English OR the French quiz, AND (c) fill out the English OR French course evaluation form. While there are workarounds to setting up this course completion criteria, it is not as simple as only having to worry about content in a single language.
- When people complete an activity in English, the learning environment tracks that they've completed this activity in English - not in French. As such, if people start a course in English, they should continue in English and not switch to French. Note that this limitation only applies if you are tracking activity completion. If activity completion is not being tracked for an activity, then people can toggle back and forth between English and French without any negative impact.
Setting Up a Bilingual (or Multilingual) Course
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Step-by-Step Guide
To translate the course title and description:
- Go to the course in question
- Go to Course Administration > Settings
- Modify the course full name and course summary using mlang tags
- This is described in full in the Translating Web Pages article, but the same principle can be applied to the course full name, course summary and most other fields that are visible to learners
- Click on the "Save and display" button at the bottom of the page
To set up a section in that course that contains your English (or French) activities and resources:
- Go to the course in question
- Turn editing on
- Click on the "Edit summarytopic" icon in next to the first topic (usually represented by a cogwheel)Click on "Edit selection"in the course
- Expand the "Restrict access" section of the topic summary
- Click on "Add restriction..."
- Choose "Language" from dialog box
- Specify the Language by choosing "English (en)" in the drop down.
- Make sure the eye icon is struck through to completely hide the section to French viewers
- Click on the "Save changes" button at the bottom of the page
Important Notes
- By following the steps above, you've instructed the learning environment to only show the first topic to users whose preferred language is English
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- . You may now place all your English content in this first topic.
- If you follow the same steps as above with the second topic but set the restriction Language to "
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- Français", then you will be able to place your French content in the second topic.
- Note that you can have as many topics as you want, each with their own restrictions. You can also place the restriction on each activity if you prefer (rather than on the entire topic). Restricting the entire topic however is generally simpler to manage and less error prone.
Warning: Restrict access by language is only available when at least two language packs are installed.
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