Enrolment plugins

Location: Administration > Courses > Enrolments

There are several ways to manage course enrolments (or enrollments). These are called Enrolment plugins in Moodle and include:

Authorize.net Payment Gateway

External database

Flat file

Internal enrolment (default)

IMS Enterprise (1.6)

LDAP

Paypal

OSCommerce

Moodle1.6

From Moodle 1.6 onwards, multi-enrolment is supported, with one plugin set as the default plugin for interactive enrolment.

There are two aspects to enrolment plugins:

• Login-time enrolment lookups. These perform a lookup against an LDAP/AD, database or SIS server. You can have several plugins set to perform login-time lookups.
• Interactive enrolment. These trigger only when a user tries to join a course - and may ask for an enrolment key, a payment via PayPal, Google Checkout, or a credit card gateway.

Unenrolment may be controlled by the following:

• The longtimenosee variable in Administration > Configuration > Variables (or Administration > Server > Cleanup in 1.8), which specifies the time limit for which, if students haven't logged in, they are unenrolled from courses.
• The Enrolment duration in the course settings, which unenrols students after the specified time has elapsed.
• Enrolment plugins may decide that the enrolment has expired; for example, if it is not present or current in an LDAP, Database or SIS server.

See also

• Using Moodle Enrolment Plugins forum
• Using Moodle Can't use External Database Enrollment Plugin forum discussion