Hi all,
I would like to know how the manager can assign 1 student to several courses?
What I have found out:
"There might be a possibility to assign the students role to a category in which we could define relevant courses. This way we may assign 1 student to many courses (see http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Enrolment > “Category enrolments - users are enrolled in all courses in a category”)."
Is there another possibility?
Thanks!
Moodle version (production): Moodle r2.0.1
Dear Daniel,
I think you should use Cohort feature of Moodle. Please go through this post
https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=228211
Dear S.,
thanks for your answer! I cannot use Cohorts (=groups) because the users change for each season where we offer courses.
Bye, Daniel
I'm kinds in favor of the meta-course enrollment route.
If you're a bit shy about the REALLY STUPID meta-course enrollment interface see MDL-27628 where I've posted a patch to fix the interface.
Dear Bob,
this might be a good technical solution but is this also the common understanding of my business case?
Thanks!
Well, in answer to that all I can say Daniel is that it is also the suggestion I was going to post a couple of days ago but saw that Bob had already done it
Bob is right that the interface is poor as it stands and that patch looks great (although my own work around has always been to create the links directly in the database ), but the solution of using Meta-links I think is probably the right one for you.
Richard
Hi Daniel,
Do it the way I do, by using a spreadsheet csv file. Works in all versions of Moodle. You can even use this method if the students are already registered, or not. Even after I do initial enrollments, I keep the file as it can be reused, even if you are only making minor changes to a couple of students...you tell Moodle to only do updates then.
This way will let you enroll users (students, managers, teachers) to multiple courses, assign their role, and enrollment duration. After the courses are over, with a few changes, you can even use it to delete users.
Since you are using Moodle 2.0.1 here is the doc link: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Upload_users#Encoding_file_format
Hope this helps,
AL
Good idea, Al but I don't think it scales very well. We have 300 courses with meta enrollments per term.
Hi Bob,
I sympathize with you and agree that that many courses can be a problem. Even with as small of a Moodle as I have, I use multiple different csv files split into year groups. I also use cohorts so that when the csv enrolls them in a cohort, they are automatically enrolled in a lot of the courses via the cohort.
AL
Dear AL,
thanks for sharing your idea! This works for me.
Bye Daniel
