We have used Moodle 2 for years, but I've found this problematic.
We use an MIS Integrator from webanywhere, which brings in our students and teachers.
But I create courses for All Teachers to use. To enrol all staff I have to search and add every single one 100+ staff, by name and enrol them on the course.
Is there a quicker way, am I just being stupid?
thank you for any help
Hello Steve,
Moodle supports Bulk User Enrollment by default. Kindle check out the following link.
http://docs.moodle.org/22/en/Upload_users
Let me know if this helps.
Have a good day
Diptaroop,
DualCube
Thank you the suggestion Dualcube.
but the problem isn't uploading users, the users are already in Moodle.
the problem is there isn't a quick way to search and enroll over 100 teachers to a course.
Any other suggestions?
Do you already have a list of teachers that you can quickly add to a csv file? Because if so then you can upload them into the course with the fields: username,course1,role1 where course1 is the shortname of the course (ie the one in the navigation bar/breadcrumb)and for role2 you put "Teacher"
Then when you upload, you choose "Update exisiting users" and even though they are already on your system they will be added to the course as teachers.
Cheers Mary, I'll give that a try.
I have requested Webanywhere to add teachers and staff as a Group in their MISGROUPS block.
Thank you
Steve
Also is there any quick way to un-enrol everyone from a course?
Thank you
Steve
If you filter by student for example on the enrolled users page, it will give you checkboxes so that you can select multiple students and then unenroll them all at once.
Hi Emma,
how do I filter by student, on the enrolled users page/enrol/users.php? to un-enrol users.
I only have option to filter by Enrolment methods, and all users are "Manual Enrolments"
Please advise, thank you
Steve - which version of Moodle are you using? Is it Moodle 2.4? I think being able to filter users came with 2.5
That's right Mary - I have a test 2.5 here and almost jumped for joy out of my chair when I saw the filter users by role for a course! BUT a plugin we rely on (Kaltura) isn't 2.5 yet so we went for 2.4.6 (as of the last rebuild - it needed rebuilding twice in a week or so :|)
Ahh that explains it, I'll request an update 2.5
I've worked with Microsoft user handling and security for over 15 years and Moodle users handling still continues to confuse me. It does still seem very much focused on One Teacher per course enrolling students themselves and not allowing easy site and course enrollments by a site administrator. We have to enroll groups of students and groups of teachers to over 100 courses every year on our Moodle. It still not quite there for ease of use for schools. Just something to feedback.
thanks as always for your support
Steve
We wrote some code that enrols students using course codes, groups and a live link to our MIS system. It's not a plugin though, so every time we update/rebuild we have to add it to course/view.php.
It would be nice to make a live tie in that runs nightly but that would require changes to our MIS system/data based on one place that has done it and has the same MIS system as ours.
Go into the course, and in the Settings block > Course Administration menu on the page there is a Reset link. This can remove all users of one role, or select multiple roles (e.g. Student and Teacher) in one go (as well as reset forums etc, you just choose which activities/enrolments you want the contents of clearing).
HTH
Dear Steve,
You Can do this with Bulk user actions and cohorts
1.) Site map to create cohorts
Home ► Site administration ► Users ► Accounts ► Cohorts
2.) Site map add users to cohorts.
Home ► Site administration ► Users ► Accounts ► Bulk user actions
3.) Select the role for cohorts
Home ► Site administration ► Plugins ► Enrolments ► Cohort sync
4.) Enable the cohort sync
Home ► Site administration ► Plugins ► Enrolments ► Manage enrol plugins
Warm Regards
DualCube
Dual , That's Ace,
i have very quickly enrolled all of staff onto a course but can you quickly un-enroll a cohort?
thank you
steve
In the course, go to CourseAdmin/Users/Enrolment methods and just delete the cohort there.
Dear Steve,
Go to
Course Administration > Users > Enrolment Methods. If you have enrolled a cohort, the cohort will be listed on the page. Click the cross button to remove it.
Warm Regards
DualCube
A stock solution is the AutoEnrol enrolment method:
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=enrol_autoenrol
We have this added to pages we want to make it easy for people to access. For staff-only pages, it can be set to only allow users who have say the Institution value of 'Staff' in to a page but they don't have to click the Enrol button (which they like).
We get a user's Staff or Student status from a field on their LDAP profile, stored on our network, which if you're using LDAP or AD your network people should be able to arrange to populate (or write a script which populates the values as a scheduled task or cron job, depending on whether you host your moodle on Linux or Windows).
i have tried to download this plugin...but when i get to the validation part, i get an error "missing english language folder".. i am using Moodle 2.5.2..any ideas? thanks