Course categories
The role of the Moodle administrator is to manage categories and courses. It is possible to delegate these tasks to non-administrators, and we will deal with this in Chapter 6, Managing Permissions – Roles and Capabilities. Here, let's start with an overview of course categories.
Course categories – an overview
Categories act as containers for courses. They can have subcategories, which can have sub-subcategories, and so on. The arrangement is similar to that of files and folders on a disk drive, where courses are like files and categories are like folders. This hierarchical structure can be visualized as follows:
A course always belongs to a single category. It cannot belong to multiple categories and also cannot be without a category. There is one exception to this rule, namely, the front page (course id = 1). Internally, the front page is treated as a course that neither belongs to a category, nor can be deleted.
There are different ways of organizing course and category...
