Moodle 2.7: use Upload Courses to create more than one instance of Self Enrolment

Moodle 2.7: use Upload Courses to create more than one instance of Self Enrolment

by J Stringer -
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Hi,

I am trying to use Upload Courses to create a course with two instances of self enrolment and two separate enrolment keys: 1 for a student, 1 for a teacher.

Here's an example of a CSV:

shortname,fullname,category,summary,enrolment_1,enrolment_1_role,enrolment_1_password,enrolment_2,enrolment_2_role,enrolment_2_password

courserestored21,Course restored21,34,a summary,self,teacher,12345,self,teacher,56789

However, when I do this, it only creates the second instance enrolment_2. It's as if it's overwriting the first.

Does anyone know what needs to be done to create two self enrolment instances?

I'm creating over 50 courses and I really don't want to have to manually add a second instance of self enrolment (all with different keys).

thanks very much!

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Re: Moodle 2.7: use Upload Courses to create more than one instance of Self Enrolment

by Mary Cooch -
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Both are called "teacher" - should one not be called "student"?

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Re: Moodle 2.7: use Upload Courses to create more than one instance of Self Enrolment

by J Stringer -

Thanks for the reply. I should have looked at the file I was uploading. In this instance they're both named teacher but I tried many different combinations and the second always overwrote the first. I have since tried creating groups with enrolment keys and bulk restoring from a backup, but this doesn't work either. The group/enrolment key is still there but I can't get the "Use group enrolment keys" to stick because enrolment methods do not save when backing up a course and I have no idea how to enable "Use group enrolment keys" using the Upload Courses CSV. There are a number of enrolment fields but "Use group enrolment keys" isn't one of them. Or perhaps it is, but how to access this is not indicated in the documentation.

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Re: Moodle 2.7: use Upload Courses to create more than one instance of Self Enrolment

by J Stringer -

For what it's worth, I was able to find out how to change the instance name of the enrolment by reading some source code I found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25325314/how-to-add-cohort-to-a-course-programmatically. Using Enrolment_1_name will do this. However, I still cannot create more than one instance of self enrolment.

On the other hand, I was able to change the site-wide setting for course creation so that it defaults Yes to allow to use Group Enrolment Keys at "Home / ▶ Site administration / ▶ Plugins / ▶ Enrolments / ▶ Self enrolment".

So for now, I'll create one editing teacher role with a unique enrolment key for each course but I'll use the same group enrolment key for all students.

I would still like to  know how to do this if anyone can figure it out.

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Re: Moodle 2.7: use Upload Courses to create more than one instance of Self Enrolment

by J Stringer -

Thought I found a solution, but turns out I haven't. Because the default role is now set to be editing teacher, anyone who enrols to the course using a group enrolment key is enrolled as a teacher. Does anyone know if custom roles can be created system wide for course enrolment? So for example, having Manual, Self, Cohort Sync, other?

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