Admin tools: Upload enrolment methods
This plugin is an enhanced version of the Upload Metacourse links block plugin on which it is based. It also provides a good work-around for a long-standing issue with the Course upload facility whereby enrolment methods are not fully supported.
Use the command Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Upload enrolment methods to upload a CSV file containing lines of the form:
operation, enrolment method, target course shortname, parent course shortname or cohort idnumber, disabled, group[, role]
Note that version 1.2.x requires fields in a fixed order (as above) with no heading line, but version 1.3.0. now supports an initial heading line, and allows you specify the delimiter, e.g.
operation,method,shortname,metacohort,disabled,group[,role]
add,meta,CS101-2345,Computing-Year3,1,CS101,student
upd,meta,CS101-2344,Computing-Year1,0,CS101,editingteacher
Each line of the file contains one record.
Each record is a series of data in any order separated by a specified delimiter.
All fields are required, except role, which is optional for
backwards compatibility.
The allowed operations are add, del(ete), and upd(ate).
The allowed methods are 'meta' and 'cohort'.
The allowed disabled status values are 0 (enabled) and 1 (disabled).
The group field is the name of a group into
which enrolled students should be placed. It will be created if it doesn't already exist.
The role field must be a valid role name such as editingteacher, student, etc.
This plugin enhances the original in that it is possible to disable existing enrolment methods in batch mode, and also that it can add an enrolment method to a course but leave it disabled.
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As already mentionned it would be nice to have:
- ; instead of ,
- a field to define the course role like "student" or "teacher"
In my case I need a cohort to be defined as "manager" because to be able to send a mail to a manager (Attendance warnings for example), they need to be registered as users but not with a "student" role.
* Please allow setting the csv delimiter to something different then ",". It’s a real pain to get comma separated csv-files out of Excel depending on region.
* Our courses have a "–" (en-dash) in their shortnames which is removed by this plugin. The import then fails because the course isn’t found. Probably related to text encoding.
* It would be nice and add some peace of mind to have a preview before finally importing enrollments.
All 3 points are available with "Upload courses" and "Upload users". 1 and 2 would probably be fixed by moving to the csv library you mentioned some time ago. I really hope you or someone else will be able to implement this. Thanks again and best regards.
Has anyone managed to add cohort sync in moodle 3.9.1?
Thank you for the great tool Eoin
I've install the plugin and it works fine.
I've a question/suggesion:
Now, use this plugin is only possible for "Site Administrator".
Is there now a solution to allow this plugin for "site manager"?
If no, my suggestion is to do that in a future version
Just wondering whether something can be tweaked to accompany two cohort syncs adds in one go via .csv file?
Currently when doing this, it says the enrolment method already used and will not enrol the second cohort sync group.
Is there a way around this?
Thanks