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CONTENTS

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• 1 About cohort sync
• 2 Enabling cohort sync
• 3 Cohort themes
• 4 Cohort badges
• 5 Enrolling a cohort in a course
  • 5.1 Capabilities
• 6 See also

About cohort sync

Cohort sync is for automatically enrolling members of a cohort in a course. If a user is added or removed from the cohort, they are automatically enrolled or unenrolled respectively. In other words, cohort sync synchronises cohort membership with course enrolment.

Enabling cohort sync

To use cohort sync, it must be enabled by an administrator in Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins.

Cohort themes

If cohort themes have been enabled in the Theme settings page of Site administration, then a specific cohort theme may be selected when creating or editing the cohort:

Moodle provides a number of ways of managing course enrolment, called enrolment plugins.

About category enrolments

The category enrolments plugin allows users to be enrolled in all courses within a category. The plugin will synchronise any role assignments at category context with the capability enrol/category:synchronised set to allow.

Warning: The use of the category enrolments plugin may cause performance problems. If so, it is recommended that you use Cohort sync instead, though this will require a cohort sync enrolment method to be added to each course in the category.

Enabling category enrolments

To use category enrolments, it must be enabled by an administrator in ‘Manage enrol plugins’ in the Site administration.

Enroling users to a category

• Go to the category into which you wish to enrol users. Note: You need to have category rights (manager or administrator)
• In the Administration block,click Assign roles. The list of possible roles you can assign will appear:

Note: If you want your learners to create accounts on your site and have access to your courses, then you first need to enable Email-based self registration so they can create accounts, and then enable self enrolment within your course(s) so they can enrol. These are two separate steps.

Self enrolment is the method whereby users can choose to enrol themselves into a course, either immediately by clicking “\enrol me in this course” or by typing in an enrolment key they have been given. The enrolment plugin needs to be enabled by the site admin in Enrolment plugins and has to be enabled within the course. The manual enrolment plugin has to be enabled in the same course as well.

Enrolment, or ‘enrollment’, is the process of marking users as participants in the course, in other words assigning them a role such as student or teacher.

• Manual enrolment – the administrator or course teacher adds users manually
• Self enrolment – a user can choose to enrol him/herself into a course