Course enrolment

Note: This page is about adding (enrolling) students to courses. If the students do not already have accounts on the Moodle site, then you need first to read the page Add users.

The process of adding students to courses is called Enrolment and is different from adding users to the site, which is known as Authentication. There are various methods of enrolling students into courses, once they have logged in to Moodle.

A teacher can view,activate, add and remove the enrolment methods within their course from Course administration > Users >Enrolment methods.It may also be the case that the students are automatically enrolled into the course by an administrative process and the teacher does not need to do anything.

Students enrol themselves

If Self enrolment is enabled then students can sign up to courses themselves. The teacher can restrict enrolment to those who have been given an Enrolment key and, if needed, a staff member may be given the Keyholder role to manage enrolment keys.

Teachers manually enrol students

If Manual enrolment is enabled (and it usually is then teachers may add students to their course from Course administration > Users > Enrolled users.