While we're leaving the individual course administration till later on in this chapter, it's useful to note here the increased options in Course default settings.
It's been possible for several versions of Moodle to set as default certain features when new courses are created, for example, whether to have Topics or Weekly format or whether to show the News forum or not. Moodle 2.0 takes this one step further by giving us the opportunity on this screen to decide globally on enrolment, groups, availability, and language items which previously could only be done on an individual course basis. Thus, we could force groups in all activities in all our courses, or we could set a default enrolment key. These settings may of course be changed by the teachers in each course, but as institutions often have certain policies to ensure consistency across courses, having more default options is an advantage and time saver.