General plugins (Local): CSV Enrolls & Groups plugin
The CSV Enrolls & Groups plugin allows you to import user enrollments for a course from an uploaded delimited text file. It is contributed by Fred Woolard.
Enrollments are made with the manual enrol plugin and using a selectable role. The plugin can optionally create course groups and assign the new enrollees to those groups.
Each of the users listed in the input file must have an existing Moodle user account; new Moodle user accounts will not be created.
This plugin was originally (Moodle 1.9) a refactor of the mass_enroll course admin mod done by Patrick Pollet and Valery Fremaux, using the standard groups course import plugin as a template. The current Moodle 2.x revision is again a refactor, but as a local plugin (placed into the local/ directory off the Moodle root), and accessed from the course administration menu under the 'Users' node.
Besides being able to create groups, you can select from existing groups and override the data file's group designation. An additional feature allows instructors to make group assignments based on meta-course enrollments.
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I will likely keep the restriction that group names begin with a letter or number, but will make changes to allow the single char group names.
We are getting the following error message when uploading 800 students to groups via the plugin:
Service Unavailable - This service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.
The file size is only 10KB. Do you know what this may be?
Thanks,
P.S. we are on Moodle 2.5
How does it handle removing students from groups?
Regards,
Brenton
I thought I saw somewhere that your plugin was scheduled for update/release for Moodle 2.8 and 2.9 in November.
Has this happened?
Cheers
Mark
The contents are by email. Would you happen to know why this issue is taking place?
$regex_pattern = '/^"?\s*([a-z0-9][\w.%-]*@[a-z0-9][a-z0-9.-]{0,61}[a-z0-9]\.[a-z]{2,6})\s*"?(?:\s*[;,\t]\s*"?\s*([a-z0-9][\w\' .,&-]*))?\s*"?$/Ui';
You test that pattern against your input file, or if you need help with that, you can message/email a sample email address entry from your file.
Thanks for a FANTASTIC plugin that makes getting students enrolled and into groups into your courses! This also works fantastic for quickly creating groups for group assignments, and dovetails perfectly for the amazing Active Quiz plugin to quickly put your entire class into groups, and then allowing students to quickly self check-in who in their group is present for each session....
Quick question: any chance you will be updating for Moodle 3.1 and 3.2 soon? Thanks for sharing your great work with the Moodle community!
Thank you both for your comments. The plugin version available on Moodle's download site should work on 3.1 or 3.2 without problem. There is a more current version on the github repository, however, please be forewarned that the current version removes functionality having to do with group assignments from metalink course enrollments. The functionality for group assignments from .csv file imports is still there.
Because I do not know how many users would be impacted by removing the course metalink group assignment feature, I have not uploaded the current version to Moodle.