28 . Enrolling learners in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

Enrolling learners.
There are a number
of ways in which your students can
access your course ,for example your
administrator might enrol them for you
or they might be automatically enrolled
from outside, or they might be able to
create their own accounts on the Moodle
site and then enrol themselves into
your course.
In this video we look at how
you the teacher can manually add
students to your course and how you can
find out the other ways in which they
can access your course.
If we click the
Participants link in the navigation drawer,
and then click the gear there, we see
Enrolled users and Enrolment methods.
Enrolment means how students get into
your course
whereas Authentication means how they
get onto a Moodle site, which we do not
look at here.
If we click Enrolment
methods we can see the different ways
that they're able to access or be
enrolled into a course.
The first one we
see is called Manual enrolments.
This
means that students can be enrolled into
the course by their teacher.
Note that
for security reasons on our Teaching
with Moodle MOOC on the learn Moodle
site manual enrolment is not available.
Guest access here has its eye icon
closed so that means that currently no
guests can look at this course, but the
teacher can enable it by clicking the
icon.
Self enrolment means that users
can enrol themselves by clicking a
button.
This is currently disabled again because
the eye icon has a line through it.
Clicking it to open it would allow us to
give students permission to access the
course themselves.
If we now go back and
then look at Enrolled users, here we can
do two things: we can see the list of who
is already enrolled in our course and
that's currently just the teacher Sam,
and if there are a lot of users, we can
search for them by using the search box
at the top and we can filter by the
different ways in which they've been
enrolled
and by the role which they have in
the course.
Now remember that on our
Learn Moodle site teachers are not
allowed to enrol students directly into
their practice courses, but if we go into
a different site and a different course
we can see how to do this.
To enrol
users manually we click the Enrol users
button and then choose the role that we
want.
Currently it's set to Student . As a
teacher we don't normally have the
rights to enrol other teachers into
our course.
We have to ask permission to
do that.
We then scroll down and choose
the users that we want,
so for example to enrol this student we
click the Enrol button, and then we can
scroll down and finish enrolling the
users.
Now this is fine if we just have a
few people to enrol into our courses.
However if you have many it might be
worth investigating other ways of
allowing them access.
Let's go to a
different course in a different Moodle
site and explore cohorts.
Here is the
Enrolled users screen again but this
time if we click the Enrol users button
we see a new option:
Browse users and Browse cohorts.
A cohort
is a group of users created by the site
administrator or manager and we can add
cohort members individually from here or
from the Enrolment methods screen where
we were before, using what's called the
Cohort sync method, and note that as they
are added, you can also add them to any
existing groups in the course but you'll
only see this Cohort sync method if your
site has set up cohorts.