Enrolments

Enrolment, or 'enrollment', is the process of marking users as participants in the course, that includes both students and teachers. At the same time users are usually give a role in the course which specifies what they are allowed to do.

Enrolment plugins

Moodle provides a number of ways of managing course enrolment, called enrolment plugins. Click the links below for further information.

• Manual enrolment - the administrator or course teacher adds users manually.
• Self enrolment - a user can choose to enrol him/herself into a course.
• Cohort sync - users are part of a Cohort which is added to the course.
• Course meta link - users enrolled in other courses are given automatic access
• Guest access - users can view course materials but not participate.
• Category enrolments - users are enrolled in all courses in a category
• External database - users are enrolled from a database such as Access, MySQL
• Flat file -users are enrolled with a csv file.
• IMS Enterprise - users are enrolled with this standard XML file format
• LDAP enrolment - users are authenticated and then enrolled through LDAP
• MNet remote enrolments - users are enrolled via a linked Moodle site
• PayPal - users purchase enrolment with Paypal.

See also

• Enrolment FAQ
• Course enrolment in Managing a Moodle course
• Unenrolment