Something we get asked for is to have the ability to specify multiple course codes in a course settings for automatic enrolment (i.e., the Moodle course caters for the students from a number of "real" courses).
We only use the database plugin and I guess it would be relatively easy to make it handle a comma separated list of codes in the "CourseID" field. This could be combined with an on/off switch for the functionality, to ensure there are no regression problems.
I would have "bodge guilt" about this though. It breaks the notion of the course id field for a start (it doesn't say "Course IDS") and it would only work for the database enrolment.
I suppose this could be done with metacourses, but that would effectively mean having an empty Moodle course for each of the "real" courses.
Any thoughts?
Hi Howard,
In my experience, being able to specify multiple course codes in the course settings for automatic enrolment (or an alternative solution) is much needed functionality.
If you've not done so already, please could you add an improvement request in the tracker. I'll definitely be voting for it!
In my experience, being able to specify multiple course codes in the course settings for automatic enrolment (or an alternative solution) is much needed functionality.
If you've not done so already, please could you add an improvement request in the tracker. I'll definitely be voting for it!
After a short search, this has obviously been around for a while 
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-4161
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-4161
It has been many years and this is still a much needed feature.
We have instructors teaching multiple sections who want to use the database enrollment option to automatically enroll 2 or 3 sections into one class and then use grops to manage them.