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Self enrolment problem - solved - Moodle 2.5

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Self enrolment problem - solved - Moodle 2.5

by Ray Le Couteur - Friday, September 6, 2013, 2:28 PM

This wasted about 2 hours of my time ... so it may help someone else.

We recently upgraded our Moodle from 1.9 to 2.2 and then did a course by course import into 2.5 (our database had issues as it dated from v1.08 in 2003).
Our students arrived this week and the self enrolment plugin failed 'You can not enrol yourself in this course' - even though site and course self enrolment settings seemed fine.

The solution seems very strange but, with lots of trial and error as I couldn't find the solution on this forum, goes like this:

Go into the course (logged in as teacher/admin):
Course admin>users>enrolment methods>self enrolment> set 'Unenrol inactive after' to 'never' rather than our default '365 days'. Save. Self enrolment now works and students see the 'enrol' button when they click on the course to enter.

Even more strangely, self enrolment continued to work even if I put the setting back to 365 days later!!!

Re: Self enrolment problem - solved - Moodle 2.5

by Randy Thornton - Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 2:21 AM

Thanks so much for posting this issue and solution.

I had exactly the same issue with courses imported from a 2.3 to a2.5 site. All the 'Unenrol inactive after' dates were set to 'Never' and setting them to 1800 days then gets self-enrollment working again. So it looks like just changing the setting will then "correct" the issue.

This is obviously a bug in the way that setting is restored and so it appears that the Unenroll inactive dates are passed for everyone.

I restored this course with existing users in it. That may be an interesting variable.

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