Mary Cooch

Hi Donovan

Ignore any role types you have set up. You should not have system wide roles at all and you are correct; forget about groupings on the front page. Your users should just have the default role of authenticated user.

Before they log in (if your front page has the list of courses)they should all see the courses available. Then they choose the course they want to enrol in and enrol with the key you will have given them.

After that once they have logged in they will only have their own courses that they are enrolled in.

I am happy to have a look if you want to give me a log in but I don't think you have a  problem here; just a need to understand the way moodle displays courses to those who are logged in and then those who have enrolled in various courses or not. Certainly there is no need to edit any roles.

Hi Donovan.
First: go to site admin>users>permissions>assign system roles and make sure that you have NO students enrolled in there. This is what is making them appear in all courses. Take them all out. Then when they go to a course and type in the enrolment key they will only be in that particular course, not others. (If you have no students assigned sitewide then there are other possiblilites - let me know)
Second - if you go to site admin>appearance>mymoodle and turn that on, that makes a personalise page for students once they have logged in. They only get to see the courses they are enrolled in and assignments/activities they are doing.
LEAVE WELL ALONE any role overrides/permissions/new roles etc, for the time being at least. Moodle will do what you want with the default roles.
If you are wanting students in the same course to see different things, then you need to use groupings - I will help you with that if that is the case. But if you mean different students in different courses only seeing the materials for their own courses then the above should suffice.

Hi Nellie. I think your site has been hacked If you right click and view the source code of your front page there are a lot of references to real estate in California, which I presume are nothing to do with you - and often, one of the signs of being hacked is that images disappear and the html editor stops working. Have a look at this link in the docs for hacked site recovery

Open your Word doc and click "save as" and choose "web page" It will save the images in a separate folder in order.

This might help, here in the docs