About
Kickstart adds a powerful course template engine to Moodle – create courses easily and produce high quality courses, consistently. You’ll never want to create a course without once you’ve tried it. Building courses based on templates makes the process of course creation easier and faster. All important settings are already pre set in the template. Centrally managed templates ensure consistency, brand conformity and quality of your courses, without any additional effort.
The Pro version adds unlimited templates and simplifies importing content from other courses. Access to templates can be granted per cohort, category and role. This is especially useful for larger organizations that may have different course types on their site. At the same time, teachers save a lot of time because repetitive tasks like course configuration and layout are reduced significantly. Thus, teachers can focus on content and teaching.
Use cases
- Scaling your site while maintaining consistency across courses
- Implementing a distinct look & feel for multi-tenant sites
- Automating course configuration to minimize quality assurance efforts
- Introduction of organization-wide designs
Key features
Template management
Establish a cohesive and branded learning environment with standardized course templates….
Template access restriction
By controlling access to templates, you ensure that only authorized users can deploy specific course designs and structures….
Instructions for empty courses
Administrators can set up site-wide default instructions that are automatically displayed in any course that is not fully developed….
Feature overview
Basic | Pro | |
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Template management Establish a cohesive and branded learning environment with standardized course templates. | ||
Create standardized templates Up to 4 templates (basic), unlimited (pro) | ✔ | ✔ |
Guided usage with descriptions and tags Each template can be accompanied by descriptive guides and tagged appropriately. | ✔ | ✔ |
Preview URL per template Offering preview URLs for templates allows instructors to visualize the course layout and design before selection. | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatic template application For ultimate efficiency, administrators can set certain templates to be applied automatically to new courses. | ✔ | |
Instructions for empty courses Administrators can set up site-wide default instructions that are automatically displayed in any course that is not fully developed. | ||
Site-wide instructions Site-wide default instructions that are automatically displayed in any course that is not fully developed (customizable on a per-course basis). | ✔ | ✔ |
Fallback for empty courses for students Instead of presenting students with an uninviting list of empty topics, this feature allows for a more engaging layout. | ✔ | ✔ |
Call-to-actions for teachers Teachers can be greeted with a clear call-to-action, encouraging them to complete the setup of the course. | ✔ | ✔ |
Automatic display of teacher contact details To facilitate communication and support, the feature automatically displays the contact details of the assigned teacher(s) for the course. | ✔ | |
Reuse of existing content Providing educators with the tools they need to efficiently reuse existing materials. | ||
Comfortable import of content All previously created content is serving as a repository for reuse and as a source of inspiration for course creators. | ✔ | ✔ |
Clever search Refinement of search results through successive, refined search queries. | ✔ | |
Template access restriction By controlling access to templates, you ensure that only authorized users can deploy specific course designs and structures. | ||
Restrict by roles Specify which roles within the Moodle system can access certain templates. | ✔ | |
Restrict by cohorts Tailor template accessibility to specific cohorts, which are global groups designed to cluster related users logically. | ✔ | |
Restrict by categories Control template use within specific course categories or across entire categories, including their subcategories. | ✔ | |
Combining restrictions For ultimate control, combine restrictions across cohorts, categories, and roles to fine-tune template accessibility. | ✔ | |
Course creator Simplifying the steps involved in creating a course, eliminating the complexity traditionally associated with course settings and configurations. | ||
Quick course setup Teachers can initiate the creation of a new course within seconds. | ✔ | |
Simplified and guided course creation The Course Creator tool is designed to make the process of creating a new course as straightforward as possible. | ✔ |
Available plans
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KickstartFREE
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Kickstart ProFrom: 169,00 € / year