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The Refined Course Field Editor allows administrators to customize their own Course Fields across the entire platform, within a particular category (or categories) or within certain courses.With this feature it is now possible to tailor your course settings to meet your needs instead of adapting to pre-existing fields.

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Creating Course Field Categories

Course field categories are the sections within the course settings page within which the course fields will appear.  Therefore, you must first create a Course Field category before you can create course fields. To create a category, go

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to Site Administration>>> Courses>>> Course field categories:Creating Course Field Categories

To create new categories, click on Add Category.

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You can also change the name and weight of the category or delete all but one of the categories.


Creating Course Fields

Under each Course Field Category, you will put one or more Course Fields. To add customized fields go to Site Administration>>> Courses>>> Course fields:

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Be sure to Save changes before leaving the Add field page.


Using Course Fields

For information on how to use the Course Fields in Reminders or in a course, see the Refined Course Tags article.


Reserved words and terms

Do not use any of the below for the shortnames of Course Fields:

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