Assigning Student Roles

Assigning Student Roles

by Deirdre Rowley -
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I've added users. What I can't see is their role. I want to manually add users as students. Actually would like them to be able to self-roll but after several hours of no joy gave up on that option. Yes, I went through the help and instruction files. No, I can't ask my administrator as I am the administrator.

This is a brand new install. What version? Looked at how to find this out, told to create a new web site. Not overly helpful. (Whatever happened to simple? Blackboard and Etudes are looking really good at this point. Expensive but good.)

Thanks for any help,

dmr

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Re: Assigning Student Roles

by Mary Cooch -
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Have you made any courses? You don't assign students the student role to the site as a whole but to individual courses. Please see:

Assign roles

and then if you have a course or courses made Manual enrolment and [[Self enrolment]

To find out your version the simplest way is to go to the bottom of a page and click on the Moodle docs for this page and see what number it says in the top right. Alternatively as you are admin, click on Site administration>Notifications.

Here is all the Moodle documentation, which is divided into Managing a site and managing a course: docs.moodle.org

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Re: Assigning Student Roles

by Deirdre Rowley -

Actually, I am the designer and the best we could do as admin., and yes the course is all but completed. We wanted to test admitting students. I know how to add students from within if the students are already in the system. What we need is admitting students from outside the system, which is why I thought self-enroll would be easiest. (We've got the webwright, me, and a huge committee waiting for this to be up and running.)

I finally figured out how to enroll a user manually, included an email message, and went and manually gave the person a student role. Several problems:

1) Person never got the email. So that didn't work.

2) If I'm going to have to have folks email me, then I copy their emails to manually invite them to the site, enrolling them, AND specify each one as a student....

Sheese, there has got to be a better way.  The Moodle version is 2.5, which is new to me.

Any help, or at this point prayers, would be appreciated.

dmr

 

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Re: Assigning Student Roles

by Christian Herman -

Let's differentiate between authentication (user creation) and enrollment (assigned a role in a course).

When you mention students "outside the system" I assume you mean that they did not already have user accounts in Moodle.  Enabling the Email-base Self-registration authentication method will, as you might imagine, allow users to create their own accounts and receive an automated confirmation email.  They can now access Moodle but are not enrolled into any courses.

Enabling Self-enrollment (at the site level and for applicable courses) allows users to enroll themselves into courses with the click of a button.  As part of configuring the enrollment for each course you will designate what role the system will assign to users who self-enroll into it.  New enrollees will be sent a welcome email.

These email messages are only sent out if the user personally performs these actions.  So if you manually create a user account and manually enroll them into a course, no emails are sent.  So if you're trying to use self-registration and enrollment, you shouldn't be involved in either processes at all.  It all should be automated..

And just to encourage you, MANY Moodle admins are instructional entrepreneurs, teachers, or like you and I, designers masquerading as sys admins.  There's plenty of code heads and Linux junkies and server buffs on here, to be sure, and we less technical types lean on them for their strengths.  But in not too long a time you may surprise yourself by posting a sage answer to a mind-numbing question in this very forum.

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