Logged in students cannot see courses/enrol

Logged in students cannot see courses/enrol

by aye np -
Number of replies: 5

Hello

Background, I am using the essentials theme.  I have it set up so the homepage looks like a standard website - with information describing what the site is about and a login/register option.  It is not until users log in that I want them to be able to see the courses any content.

Initially I wanted to set it so when users register they are just automatically enrolled in all courses.  I wanted them to have access to all the content easily without having to go to the extra hassle of enrolling.  I looked into this and it seemed unnecessarily impossible.  I couldn't find a box that I could simply tick to remove the need for students to enrol.

I gave up on automatic enrollment and now, I'm trying to make it so that when students login they no longer have access to the homepage.  I wanted them to get redirected to /my/ where they can enroll themselves on a course and start learning.  I got the first part figured out but when they get redirected to /my/ it gives them a list of courses they are currently enrolled on.  It does not give them a list of courses that are available.  Thus, they cannot enrol.

If I go to course/index.php on the student account they have access to self-enroll, I just can't seem to add a block to /my/ which they can use to easily self-enrol.

Please excuse my ignorance if there is an easy solution to this, I've been googling for hours and I can't get a solution that works.

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Re: Logged in students cannot see courses/enrol

by Sakshi Goel -

Hello Aye ,

To show the course list to students to enrol follow the steps:

1. First direct the user to the site front page. You can set this from Administration > Site administration > Appearance > Navigation  and then set Site for 'Default home page for users' .

2. After that go to front page settings then select List of courses from drop down for 'Front page items when logged in.

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Re: Logged in students cannot see courses/enrol

by aye np -

Hi

Thanks for the reply

Problem is-- I can't redirect them to the homepage.  The homepage is made to look as far away from a moodle site as it can possibly be.  The homepage is like the front page of a website and it describes what is within the website.  I can't clutter it up with additional blocks or let people see it whilst logged in.  Once you are logged in the homepage becomes irrelevant and it looks messy when I add a block to 'front page items when logged in' because they see the initial design of the website and then a block oddly placed with the course list.  It just looks wrong.

I need a way, if possible, for users to see the list of available courses at mydomain.com/my/.  Either by automatic enrollment (which I couldn't work out) or by simply having a block at /my/ which lists the available courses.  Similar to the one at 'front page items while logged in'.  Having that would make the user experience so much better.

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Re: Logged in students cannot see courses/enrol

by aye np -

I installed this; https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=enrol_autoenrol

And it seems to "autoenroll" the student to some extent so it removes some unnecessary clicking.  Problem is the student isn't properly enrolled according to /my/ until they actually access the course for the first time.  

Problem still remains that the course remains invisible on the dashboard until the student goes to course/index.php and accesses the course for the first time.  After this the course appears in /my/

I need a way to place the course list from /course/index.php in mydomain.com/my/ rather than the homepage.  Seems to be the only resolution.  Problem is i'm too stupid to figure out how that could be done.

 

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Re: Logged in students cannot see courses/enrol

by aye np -

Figured it out eventually.  Had to set it in "default my homepage" settings option.  Now my only concern is formatting.  On the admin my homepage I can make the courses display on the left side of the website.  But on the users page the 'courses' block keeps defaulting to the right no matter what I select.

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Re: Logged in students cannot see courses/enrol

by Sakshi Goel -

Hello Aye ,

Go to your front page and add a courses block from add a block menu, then click on gear icon i.e For configuring it . And do the settings for Where this block appears (it defines where this block appears om the site) . On this page settings define where this block appear on the current page.

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