Cohort enroller

The role of cohort enroller may be given to a regular editing teacher to allow them to enrol cohorts into their course.

Despite appearances to the contrary, teachers cannot enrol cohorts either via Settings>Course administration>users>Enrolment methods or Settings>Course administration>Users>Enrolled users. See Capabilities/enrol/cohort:config

This custom role will permit teachers to enrol category cohorts into their course. This means therefore that a Head of Science Faculty could enrol cohorts for Biology, Physics and Chemistry courses while not having access to cohorts from other faculties.

Creating a new role

1. As an administrator, go to Settings>Site administration>Users>Permissions>Define roles and click the "Add a new role" button.
2. Give the role a name and assign it to the category context.
3. Filter to see entries connected with "cohort" and allow them all.
4. Click the "Create this role" button.

Creating a new custom role

Setting capabilities

Assigning the role to a teacher

1. As an administrator, go to the category page, for example http://YOURMOODLESITE/course/category.php?id=1
2. In Settings>Assign roles, assign the role of Cohort enroller to the required course teacher.
3. When the teacher returns to their course, they will be able to add the "cohort sync" method in Settings>Course administration>Enrolment methods and will also see the "Enrol cohort" button in Settings>Course administration>Users>Enrolled users.

Assigning the role in the category context

Teacher can now add cohort sync method

They can only add cohorts from their own category