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Enrolment methods

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Location: Settings > Course administration > Users > Enrolment methods

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Depending upon the enrolment methods enabled by an administrator for the site (in Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins), some or all of the following enrolment methods may be used for enrolling users in the course:

Manual enrolment

  • This enables users to be enrolled manually in Settings > Course administration > Users > Enrolled users.
  • It allows the teacher of the course to manage individual or collective enrolment to their course themselves - for example: if a new student arrives to class unexpectedly with just a login to the site, they may be enrolled by the teacher into their course without any input from an administrator.
  • See Manual enrolment for full details of how this can work in your course.

Self enrolment

  • This allows users to enrol themselves into a course, either directly or via an enrolment key ("course password")The teacher does not then have to manually add students.
  • The self-enrolment plugin also allows for users to enrol themselves into groups by using a group password.
  • See Self enrolment for full details of how this can work in your course.

Guest access

  • This allows those with the guest role to view the contents of a course.
  • Users with the "guest role" may be visitors who do not have an account on your Moodle, or users who do have an account ("authenticated users") but who would just like to explore your course.
  • It is possible to add an enrolment key so that only those guest users you wish to grant access can enter the course
  • Entering a course with guest access doesn't allow a user to participate in any activities; they can only view information.
  • See Guest access for full details of how this can work in your course.

Cohort sync

  • A cohort is a set of users which has been added either to the site as a whole or to a particular category and which can then be made available in a course through the cohort-sync enrolment plugin.
  • Only an administrator or a manager can use this plugin.
  • See [[Cohort_sync|Cohort sync] ]for full details of how this can work in your course.

Course meta link

  • This allows users who are in another course to be automatically enrolled into your course as well. An example might be if a Moodle site has a course for Staff Only and a course for Moodle help. If the Staff Only course is added to the Moodle help course with the course meta link plugin then every time a new member of staff joins the Staff Only course, they will automatically be enrolled in the Moodle Help course as well.
  • Teachers can only select from courses in which they are teachers when using this method.
  • See Course meta linkfor full details of how this can work in your course.


See also

In Managing a Moodle site: