Enrolment plugins

Location: Administration > Courses > Enrolments

Managing course enrolments

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

Authorize.net Payment Gateway

External database

Flat file

Internal enrolment (default)

IMS Enterprise (from 1.6 onwards)

LDAP

Paypal

OSCommerce (non-standard)

Multi-enrolment

Template: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 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.

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