List eXeLearning as interactive content in the activity chooser

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Summary

eXeLearning activities now appear in the activity chooser next to SCORM, H5P and Lesson:

• primary purpose MOD_PURPOSE_INTERACTIVECONTENT;
• on Moodle 5.1+, secondary purpose MOD_PURPOSE_ASSESSMENT, like H5P and Lesson;
• the default archetype instead of MOD_ARCHETYPE_ASSIGNMENT.

The last point fixes a visible bug found while reproducing: on Moodle 4.5 and 5.0 the module was missing from the chooser's "Activities" tab and only showed under "All".

Original issue

Related to exelearning/exelearning#2454.

Why

• Purpose. DEC-37-01 compared ASSESSMENT only with RESOURCE/CONTENT. Core's closest modules use INTERACTIVECONTENT. Since PR 142 the icon is branded, so the purpose no longer tints it; it only decides where the module is listed.
• Archetype (the open question in the issue). The 4.5/5.0 chooser builds its tabs by archetype: "Activities" is archetype === 0 and "Resources" archetype === 1 (course/amd/src/activitychooser.js:261-262). MOD_ARCHETYPE_ASSIGNMENT is 2, so the module fell into neither. Core uses that constant for nothing else, so the group and completion defaults that DEC-37-01 attributed to it come from the module's own features. Assignment, SCORM, H5P and Lesson all use the default archetype.
• Compatibility. FEATURE_MOD_OTHERPURPOSE exists only from 5.1 (public/lib/moodlelib.php:488 on MOODLE_501_STABLE). It is checked with defined() before the switch: as a case it would be evaluated for any unmatched feature and throw on 4.5 and 5.0.

New ADR DEC-159-01 supersedes DEC-37-01 (the old one is kept, marked Superseded).

TDD

RED

tests/supports_test.php on the old lib.php:

1) supports_test::test_supports_reports_interactive_content_classification
Failed asserting that two strings are identical.
-'interactivecontent'
+'assessment'

GREEN

vendor/bin/phpunit mod/exelearning/tests/supports_test.php → 4 tests OK (1 skipped on 5.0: OTHERPURPOSE needs 5.1+)
vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=moodle lib.php tests/supports_test.php → 0 errors, 0 warnings
make architecture-check → OK
make check-version → OK

CI covers the 5.1/5.2 branch of the secondary-purpose test.

How to test

1. As a teacher, turn on edit mode in a course and open Add an activity or resource.
2. Moodle 4.5/5.0: eXeLearning resource is listed under the Activities tab.
3. Moodle 5.1+: it is listed under Interactive content and also under Assessment.
4. The icon keeps its official colour.

Screenshots (Moodle 5.0.7, "Activities" tab)

Before

After

Notes

• Existing sites: the module moves to a different chooser category. No data changes.
• version.php: 2026092613, so Moodle refreshes the cached chooser items on upgrade.

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Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 93.92%. Comparing base (48a82fc) to head (5ff8ea0).
✅ All tests successful. No failed tests found.

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