Time for action – specifying a course enrollment key

1. Click on Users in your course Settings block and then click on Enrollment methods:

   

2. Enable the Self enrolment (Student) method by poking it in the eye (make sure the eye is open):

   

3. Click on the Self enrolment (Student) edit icon (the hand holding the pencil) to open the Self enrolment configuration page:

   

4. Most of the settings on this page are self-explanatory (do you remember how to find help on a particular setting?) but make sure you have Allow self enrolments set to Yes and have specified an enrolment password. You can make the password as simple or as complicated as you wish:

   

5. When you're finished, scroll to the bottom of the page and press the Save changes button.

6. That's it, you're done!

What just happened?

We've just specified an enrollment key for our courses. How you hand that key out to your students is entirely up to you. When it is time to get my students enrolled on my courses I usually write the key on the whiteboard. After a week...