I'm on Moodle 2.2.4+ (Build: 20120712). So if any of this is available in a newer version let me know.
At our institution it is a more important feature to have the Shortname shown instead of the Title, or both, in a lot of places. But we need to at least be able to see the shortname. Each term instructors could be teaching the same course multiple times. So unless they use the side Nav or I use the "List of courses" on the frontpage they only see the course title in the Courses, Course overview block, or when searching. By only seeing the title they don't know which section they need to go into.
I've made an improvement listed here MDL-35570 for the Courses block. By no means is it perfect but it does AT LEAST show the shortname.
But there are a few other places that would be very useful to make it possible to show the shortname. I'll list a few
- Courses block
- Course overview block
- Course search results /course/search.php?search=testcourse
- Using Meta courses
- /enrol/instances.php?id=## can't tell which course is which if all have same title and also include a direct link to that course
- /enrol/users.php?id=## can't tell which course users are getting their enrollment from if all have the same title and also include a direct link to that course and the possibility of unenrolling from the meta course without going into the child course.
There may be others but this is all I can find for now. I've tried to find a tracker associated with this but couldn't.
Thoughts on making this happen?