Managing Courses

As an administrator, you can manage all courses on the platform regardless of who created them.

Course List

The course list showing all courses with title, code, category, enrolled users, and visibility status

From the administration panel, click Course list to see all courses. The list shows:

• Course title and code

• Language

• Categories

• Visibility status

Use the Advanced search tool to find specific courses.

Creating a Course

As an administrator, you can create courses and assign them to any teacher:

1. Click Add course from the administration panel

2. Fill in the course details (title, code, category, language)

3. Assign a teacher to the course

4. Save

Note: In Chamilo 1.11.x, the course code was shown as part of the course URL, and was impossible to change after the creation of the course. This behaviour is changing in 2.x. The course code is not visible in the URL anymore, and future versions might allow teachers to modify the course code afterwards as it become less essential to the platform.

Managing an Existing Course

Find a course in the list to access management options in the Actions column:

• Information — Show information about the course

• Course home — Sends you directly to the course's homepage

• Reporting — See engagement and performance data

• Edit — Change course title, category, visibility, and other settings

• Create a backup — Go to the maintenance section of the course, where you can create copies and do other things

• Add to catalogue — Add this course to the course catalogue

• Delete — Permanently remove the course and all its content

Deleting a course removes all content, learner data, grades, and tracking information permanently. Consider exporting the course first as a backup.

Bulk Operations

Select multiple courses in the list to perform batch actions such as deleting them. To export a course, enter the course and use the Maintenance tool — there is no bulk export action on the admin course list.

Course Visibility Settings

Administrators can override the visibility set by teachers:

Visibility	Effect
Public	Accessible to everyone, including anonymous visitors
Open	Accessible to all logged-in users
Private	Only enrolled users can access the course
Closed	No one can access the course (except the teacher and admins)
Hidden	No one can view or access the course (except the admins)