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Restrict participants to Cohort

by David Younger - Thursday, January 28, 2021, 7:04 AM

I am new to Moodle and not sure I have set it up correctly.

I am providing training courses to businesses.

I am setting up a Cohort for each business and then assigning the Cohort to the Courses so that they only see the courses relevant to them. This is important for us.

What I would like to do is restrict the Participant view to only the members of the logged in persons Cohort. Right now they can see all participants across all cohorts.

I can see that I can turn off Participants view but I do want it, only for the members of the Cohort however.

Is this possible and if so how?

Was I correct to use Cohorts or would Groups be better?

Looking forward to your feedback.

Cheers
David

Re: Restrict participants to Cohort

by Randy Thornton - Thursday, January 28, 2021, 7:55 AM

You use Groups to do this.

Cohorts exist at the system level and allow you to enroll the members of the same cohort into the same set of courses, like you are doing. Inside a course, however, students can be put into Groups and the course can be set so that Group members only see each other, and not members of other groups. Groups apply only inside a specific course, not across courses.

For how to set this up, please see the documentation on Groups, especially the part of "Separate groups."

Cohorts and groups are not coordinated in any way: you need to do that. You can do that manually create groups in a course matching each cohort name and put the members in, but it is more convenient to use this excellent plugin, Cohort members to groups which will automate that for you.

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Re: Restrict participants to Cohort

by David Younger - Wednesday, February 3, 2021, 8:24 AM

I used Cohort Sync with auto Group Creation and the Auto Cohort plugin when new users sign up and its all working a treat now.
Thank You
Cheers
David

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Re: Restrict participants to Cohort

by Randy Thornton - Thursday, February 4, 2021, 6:38 AM

Nice to hear that!

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