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Cohorts, or site-wide groups, enable all members of a cohort to be enrolled in a course in one action, either manually or synchronised automatically.

Creating a cohort

Cohorts can be created by site administrators and other users with appropriate permissions.

Access Settings > Site administration > Users > Accounts > Cohorts

Click the Add button
NOTE In the dropdown you can choose between making your cohort available throughout the site "system" or in a named category.
Complete the details and save the changes.
Follow the assign link opposite the cohort name in the list of available cohorts.

Select potential users from the list then click the Add button.

To synchronise cohort members with course participants, the Cohort sync enrolment plugin should be enabled in Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins.

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-<p class="note">'''Please refer to [[Page_notes#Grouping users|these notes]] before editing this page.'''</p>Cohorts, or site-wide groups, enable all members of a cohort to be enrolled in a course in one action, either manually or synchronised automatically.
+Cohorts, or site-wide groups, enable all members of a cohort to be enrolled in a course in one action, either manually or synchronised automatically.
-A three minute Cohort in Moodle 2.0 video:
-<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWZW_n0eVI</mediaplayer>
-Cohorts in Moodle 2.0 video:
-<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMqaeOGXuHQ</mediaplayer>
 ==Creating a cohort==
-To create a cohort manually
+Cohorts can be created by site administrators and other users with appropriate permissions.
-# Access ''Site administration > Users > Accounts > Cohorts''
-# Click the Add button
-# Complete the form and click the 'Save changes' button
-# Follow the assign link opposite the cohort name in the list of available cohorts
-# Select potential users from the list then click the Add button
-To synchronise cohort members with course participants, the ''Cohort sync'' enrolment plugin should be enabled in ''Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins''.
-==Enrolling a cohort in a course==
-In order to actually enrol users from a Cohort into courses the ''Cohort-Sync'' Enrollment plugin needs to be added to the enrollment methods for the course. The Administrator will first need to enable the ''Cohort-Sync'' enrollment plugin site wide (Site administration > Plugins > Enrollments) and then add it to the required Course (Course administration > Users > Enrollment Methods). At this stage the ''Cohort-Sync'' instance for the course is edited and the appropriate Cohort selected. The role to which the Cohort users are assigned is also selected at this point (typically Student).
-Visiting the Course administration > Users > Enrolled Users page will show users enrolled via the ''Cohort-Sync'' plugin.
+* Access ''Settings > Site administration > Users > Accounts > Cohorts''
+[[File:Createcohort.png]]
+* Click the Add button
+*'''NOTE''' In the dropdown you can choose between making your cohort available throughout the site "system" or in a named category.
+*Complete the details and save the changes.
+* Follow the assign link opposite the cohort name in the list of available cohorts.
+[[File:Assigncohort.png]]
+* Select potential users from the list then click the Add button.
-Note that, by default, a teacher cannot add this plugin to their course. It needs to be configured by an Administrator or a user with the Manager role.
+To synchronise cohort members with course participants, the [[Cohort sync]] enrolment plugin should be enabled in ''Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins''.
-The required capabilities for setting up a cohort sync are:
+==Cohort capabilities==
-* moodle/course:enrolconfig in the course context
-* moodle/cohort:config in the course context
-* moodle/cohort:view in the same context as category
-The required capabilities for manually enrolling cohort members are:
+*[[Capabilities/moodle/cohort:assign|Add and remove cohort members]]
-* the same as cohort sync (note: this is a bug)
+*[[Capabilities/moodle/cohort:manage|Create, delete and move cohorts]]
-* enrol/manual:enrol in course context
+*[[Capabilities/enrol/cohort:config|Configure cohort instances]]
-* moodle/course:enrolreview in course context
+*[[Capabilities/moodle/cohort:view|View site-wide cohorts]]
 ==See also==
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWZW_n0eVI A three minute Cohort in Moodle 2.0 video]
+*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMqaeOGXuHQ Cohorts in Moodle 2.0 video]
-* [[Development:Cohorts]]
+[[Category:Site administration]]
 [[fr:Cohortes]]
 [[de:Globale Gruppen]]

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Cohorts: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 09:53, 1 May 2012

Creating a cohort

Cohort capabilities

See also