Easy Enrollments

Enrolment ::: enrol_easy

Maintained by

Chris Kenniburg

Get students from the homepage to learning in seconds using 6 digit enrollment codes or a QR Code. This plugin is part of a set. For best results please install Fordson version 1.4.4 or newer.

Latest release: 3 years

846 sites

156 downloads

86 fans

Current versions available: 4

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This plugin works best with the following themes:

New Easy Enrollment Block
This block allows you to display the Easy enrollment form on any theme.
https://moodle.org/plugins/block_enroleasy
Thanks to Lukas Celinak for developing this block for Easy Enrollment.

Easy Enrollment Promo

The Easy Enrollment plugin generates a 6 digit code for every course and group in your Moodle site. Once activated on your course you can visit the Easy Enrollment Settings page and see all of your enrollment codes. This plugin will also generate QR codes which can be downloaded and printed to use with younger students or in print materials. Upon activation of the Easy Enrollment plugin the Fordson Moodle Theme will display all the necessary forms on the homepage so that students can enter enrollment codes and instantly be taken to the corresponding course.

The QR Code reader requires SSL/HTTPS in order to function. If you do not have SSL then disable the QR code option from the Easy Enrollment settings page.

Dearborn Public Schools is a K-12 school district in Dearborn, Michigan. We serve over 19,000 students in Wayne County and we are big fans of Moodle. We believe our work with Moodle can be of value to the Moodle community and in the spirit of open source we are sharing some of our work. There is no warrenty that this will work on every server with every theme or setup. We use it. It works well. We are sharing it to help others.

NOTE: While this can be made to work with any theme the only theme we will officially support is Fordson and Rebel. Adding the enrollment form and other functionality needed for other themes would require hacking their code to make the form appear on the homepage. There are many themes out there and they all do things a bit differently. We only use one theme and that is Fordson.

New Sitewide Easy Activation for All Courses

We now have a script that will activate the Easy Enrollment plugin for each and every course in your Moodle site. This is ideal for existing sites which want to use Easy Enroll and Fordson Theme. Once you install Easy Enrollment and activate it as one of your enrollment methods you can use the script below to turn it on for each course. Follow these instructions:

Download the script: https://github.com/dbnschools/moodle-enrol_easy/blob/master/activate.php
Upload this file to the following folder /your moodle root/enrol/easy/
Login to your moodle site as site admin. Go to the following URL:
http://your-moodle-site.com/enrol/easy/activate.php
You will see a white screen but what you did was run the script. The script is now turning on Easy Enrollment as an enrollment method for each and every course on your Moodle site.
Delete the activate.php file once complete.

Instructions Github

Download from Github and unzip
Rename folder to - easy
FTP or place "easy" folder into moodleroot/enrol/
If you cannot ftp then zip the newly named easy folder and use the normal Moodle plugin installation upload
Once installed go to Site Administration > Plugins > Enrollments and activate "Easy Enrollments". You can also adjust any of the settings. If you do not have SSL please TURN OFF QR Code reader as it will not function.
With the plugin installed and activated you must add it to any pre-existing courses as an enrollment method at the course level.
In an individual course, on the course enrollment method page for easy enrollment you can click on Settings and it will display all enrollment codes.

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Chris Kenniburg
Tue, 8 Jan 2019, 3:01 AM
Fabio,
Yes. We are using it on Moodle 3.6.1 sites.
G J
Tue, 15 Jan 2019, 6:15 AM
Have you considered any options that includes integration with credit card or PayPal? I love this plugin in the Fordson theme but not sure how I can charge for courses using this. Would love to hear feedback on your thoughts and suggestions.
Chris Kenniburg
Tue, 15 Jan 2019, 9:47 PM
GJ, Good suggestion and I wouldn't mind having a pay type feature added to the enrollment plugin, however, that is beyond our use-case in K-12 currently. We might have a need when it comes to providing professional development. Let me talk with our team and see if there is a possibility to add a paypal payment where once you use pay for the course it emails you an enrollment key. I don't see the benefit of using Easy Enrollment over the Paypal enrollment method when selling a course. If I was going to sell courses/training I would use the Edwiser Wordpress bridge and utilize the payment features of Wordpress and link to the Moodle courses. I'd want the money exchange separate from my Moodle site if I was operating a business. It's just more robust with the Wordpress plugins.
Matteo Ba
Wed, 20 Feb 2019, 11:45 PM

Hello,
Is it possible to have the plugin assign the user the date for the enrollment to the course at the time the user signs up? Exactly like it happens with the spontaneous inscription of moodle.
At the moment, it seems to me, that the plugin allows you to choose the beginning of the registration but it is the same for everyone. I would need that it was not manual but that corresponded to the exact moment in which the user registers.
Thank you
Chris Kenniburg
Thu, 21 Feb 2019, 9:44 PM
Matteo, No. Not at the moment and there are no plans to do so. We have designed this to work with how our teachers use Moodle. When students show up to class they enter the enrollment code and then they are placed into the course. To design this plugin to do what you ask would require a specific setup and workflow. I am sure you could use our plugin and hire a developer to build it out the way you want.
Franky Vallori
Thu, 29 Aug 2019, 3:45 PM
Hi. Using Moodle 3.7.1, Fordson Fordson v3.7 release 1.2, enrol_easy v 1.5 ... with the smartphone I don't see the 'fa-qrcode' button, while I view it in desktop version.
Chris Kenniburg
Thu, 29 Aug 2019, 7:10 PM
The target devices are Chromebooks, laptops, and desktops with webcams. We disabled it on mobile. Maybe we can revisit this for a future release.
Chris Kenniburg
Thu, 5 Sept 2019, 8:11 PM
Update: Version 1.6 now includes a button to turn on mobile device support for webcams.
Legacy SOM
Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 1:38 PM
In the videos promo videos above they show the easy enrollment from the Dashboard. However, Fordson theme settings, Presets tab -> Theme integrations -> Turn Integration On says 'The Easy Enrollment plugin ( Easy Enrollment Plugin) allows students to enroll in courses directly from the Moodle homepage.'

It says from the homepage and does not say from the Dashboard page. I have not been able to see it there. Has this feature been removed?

Thank you
Chris Kenniburg
Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 9:04 PM
Hello James Yenne,
It works from both. Just be sure to turn on

Enhanced MyDashboard
theme_fordson | enhancedmydashboard
Default: Yes
Turning this on will enhance the MyDashboard page to include all the fordson features such as the Easy Enrollment Form, block sliders, Icon Navigation bar, Custom Homepage Text, Slideshow, and more.
Legacy SOM
Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 11:05 PM
Thank you Chris.

I found the setting in "Preset adjustments tab" just after I sent this message.

Checkbox: Enhanced MyDashboard, which is off by default.
Description: Turning this on will enhance the MyDashboard page to include all the fordson features such as the Easy Enrollment Form, block sliders, Icon Navigation bar, Custom Homepage Text, Slideshow, and more.

Awesome theme and plugin, thanks!
Roberto Becerra
Tue, 24 Mar 2020, 3:32 PM
Hello, kudos for the great work! Question: I cannot seem to upload courses via CSV and set the code (password) for the easy enrolment in that csv process, the code seems to reman a randomly generated one. Is this possible? i am using the column name enrolment_X_enrolmentcode
Chris Kenniburg
Tue, 24 Mar 2020, 7:28 PM
You cannot set the enrollment code. It is designed that way. You cannot have 2 of the same enrollment codes. ever. So for that reason, we made it randomized and out of the user's control. Also for simplicity. This plugin closely mimics the enrollment functionality and workflow of Google Classroom which we found to be quite useful. Managing and organizing courses into categories becomes less important because students don't actually have to know where to go to find the course. They need the key. The key is a 6 digit code the teacher controls.
Majid Rafiee
Sat, 18 Apr 2020, 4:19 PM
It's not working in mobile devices? There is no box to add the code in mobile devices!
David Heuring
Wed, 13 May 2020, 12:35 PM
I have a question about unenrolling students in bulk. We have hundreds of students who have enrolled using the Easy enrollment method. At the end of the term, when we want to unenroll them at once, but none of the bulk unenrollment tools doesn't recognize these easy enrollments. The only option seems to be to manually do it. Is there a setting I've missed that would make this possible? Has anyone found a way to do this other than manually one-by-one? Thanks much!