Summary

In the first half of this chapter, we learned how to create user accounts and enroll those users in courses at the same time as their accounts were being created. We then reviewed the easiest and most straightforward method of enrolling existing students in courses on the Moodle site via the Update existing users only option in the Upload users tool. In the second half of the chapter, the enrollment options in Moodle, which exist in the form of plugins, were introduced. These options were evaluated from the perspective of setting up Moodle to function as a CIMS. Using the Upload users tool within the Internal enrolment option was presented as being the easiest method and we learned that the external database plugin is one that holds the most possibility for expanding the efficiency and sophistication of the enrollment process in our CIMS. In the following chapter, we will explore methods of incorporating standards into the use of our Moodle CIMS.