Enrolment plugins: Difference between revisions

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Moodle provides a number of ways of managing course enrolment, called enrolment plugins.

Setting the enrolment method(s)

To set an enrolment method:

Click on Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins.
Click on the enable checkboxes opposite your chosen enrolment plugin(s). If you wish, you may choose more than one enrolment method. For example if you have some courses which students must pay for and some free courses, you can use PayPal and self enrolment.
Click the "Save changes" button.
Click the settings link opposite the enrolment plugin(s) you have chosen.
Configure the required settings and click the "Save changes" button.
Repeat until you have edited all the plugins you have enabled.

The order in which enrolment plugins are applied can be set. This may be important for some plugins. It also affects the order of enrolment options on the course enrol page.

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-Location: ''Administration > Courses > Enrolments''
+{{Enrolment}}
+Moodle provides a number of ways of managing course enrolment, called ''enrolment plugins''.
+[[Image:Manageenrolplugins1.png]]
-==Course enrolment==
+==Setting the enrolment method(s)==
-Once you have set up [[Authentication|user authentication]], [[Add/edit courses|created some courses]] and assigned teachers to them, the next thing to consider is course enrolment i.e. assigning users the role of student in a course.
-By default, students can enrol themselves on whatever courses they choose. They do so by clicking on the course name then answering yes to the question "You are about to enrol yourself as a member of this course. Are you sure you wish to do this?" This method of enrolment is called [[Internal enrolment|internal enrolment]]. You can restrict users from enrolling on whatever courses they choose by setting an [[Enrolment key|enrolment key]].
+To set an enrolment method:
+#Click on ''Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins''.
-A trick to avoid the confirmation message is to make a link to the course with '&confirm=1'  on the end after enrol.php e.g. http://moodle.org/course/enrol.php?id=50&confirm=1 Which will take you straight to the course page and enrol you transparently.
+#Click on the ''enable'' checkboxes opposite your chosen enrolment plugin(s). If you wish, you may choose more than one enrolment method. For example if you have some courses which students must pay for and some free courses, you can use PayPal and self enrolment.
-Whilst internal enrolment is an effective and efficient way to of managing course enrolment, particularly if you don't have a lot of courses, Moodle also provides a number of other enrolment methods (or ''enrolment plugins''). They include:
-*[[Authorize.net Payment Gateway]]
-*[[External database]]
-*[[Flat file]]
-*[[IMS Enterprise]] (from 1.6 onwards)
-*[[LDAP enrolment|LDAP]]
-*[[Paypal]]
-*[[Moodle Network]] (from 1.8 onwards)
-*[[Enrolment/OSCommerce|OSCommerce]] (non-standard)
-==Setting the enrolment method==
-[[Image:enrolment plugins.png|thumb|Choosing an enrolment plugin]]
-To set the enrolment method:
-#Click on Courses in the Site Administration block, then Enrolments.
-#On the enrolments page, click the enable checkbox opposite your chosen enrolment plugin. If you wish, you may choose more than one enrolment method. For example if you have some courses which students must pay for and some free courses, you can use PayPal and internal enrolment.
-#Select the default plugin for interactive enrolment (see below).
 #Click the "Save changes" button.
-#Click on Edit opposite the enrolment plugin(s) you have chosen.
+#Click the settings link opposite the enrolment plugin(s) you have chosen.
 #Configure the required settings and click the "Save changes" button.
+#Repeat until you have edited all the plugins you have enabled.
-==Multi-enrolment==
+The order in which enrolment plugins are applied can be set. This may be important for some plugins. It also affects the order of enrolment options on the course enrol page.
-{{Moodle 1.6}}From Moodle 1.6 onwards,  multi-enrolment is supported, with one plugin set as the default plugin for interactive enrolment.
-==Interactive enrolment==
-Interactive enrolment triggers only when a user tries to enrol on a course. The user has to do something interactively in order to be enrolled, such as clicking "Yes, I do" ([[Internal enrolment]]), or paying some money ([[Authorize.net Payment Gateway]], [[Paypal]]).
-The interactive enrolment plugin for a particular course may be selected on the [[Course settings]] page.
-==Login-time enrolment lookups==
-Login-time enrolment lookups perform a lookup against an LDAP/AD,  database or SIS server. You can have several plugins set to perform login-time lookups.
-==Unenrolment==
-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 [[Settings|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==
+*[[Unenrolment]]
+*[[Enrolment FAQ]]
 *Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=2981 Enrolment Plugins] forum
-*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=45868 Can't use External Database Enrollment Plugin] forum discussion
-[[Category:Enrolment]]
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Enrolment plugins: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 15:40, 14 April 2016

Setting the enrolment method(s)

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