When the admin creates a course, the first thing to do is to define usage rules. These rules can, in some case, be modified by the teacher, in other cases the admin does not allow the teacher do that.

When the course is going to be created we have to define.

• Course name: Name that is assigned to the course
• Category: Category assigned to the course
• Course status: Status assigned to the course, if "Active" everyone can enter, if "Waiting to be activated" or "finished" only teacher can enter
• Difficulty: We can assign a difficulty level to a course (Very easy, Easy, Medium, Difficult, Too difficult)
• Language: Is the language used by the course, (it's indipendent from language interface)
• Description: Course description
• Elapsed completion time: Is an estimate of the time that the user should pass in the course, not mandatory.
  

Method for changing user status to 'completed' : we have two methods for changing user's status to "competed", one is using teacher manual action, so the teacher decides when a user has completed the course, the second is when the user completes a specific object marked as "end course object". User with the following status can't enter in the course: status that are flagged does not allow user to enter in the course, is useful to decide if the user can enter again in the course when he has already finished it.

• Subscription: Free, On request, Only admin can subscribe
• Date: Start date, End date, Maximum time for completing the course
  

Other options:

• Hide course from generic lists : Hide course from the course list
• Can the teacher (and other allowed roles) change course policy? : The teacher can change course rules like: finish method and others?
• Show progress bar : Show users a bar that indicates the object progress
• Allow self subscription to this course: If marked the user's can auto-subscribe to this course
• Course logo
• Sponsor logo
• User list level visible on course presentation
  

Tip: In a self-learning environment it is useful to delegate to a learning object to change the student status from "suscribed" to "complete", you can start doing that defining this rule in the course policy.