Moodle: Enrolling Extra Participants into Your Course


While registered students are automatically enrolled into your course, you can manually enroll extra participants, such as a Teaching Assistant (TA) or Guest Instructor. For the manual user to work with students, they must then be added to any section groups or manual groups in the course.

To Enroll Participants into Your Course:

1. In the course sidebar, click on the administration menu gear icon.

Sidebar with admin gear highlighted
 

2. Click on the Users dropdown menu, then Enrolled users.

"Enrolled users" highlighted in Users section
 

3. On the enrolled users page, click the Enroll users button. This will open the user search window.

Enroll users button
 

4. In the pop-up window, you can click in the search bar to type a name. Scroll down in the window and use the Assign roles drop-down menu to choose the desired role for the participants.
    NOTE: The roles that appear available to assign are limited to your role's capabilities.

search box highlighted in Enroll users pop-up
 

5. You can also set a starting date, enrollment duration, and end date by clicking Show more. If you set a duration limit or end date, the participant will be removed from your course after the time you designate.

 Start date, duration, and end date settings
 

Note: If the name of the participant does not appear and you see the message 0 users found, check to ensure you have entered the correct information in the search box. You may need to contact the participant and ensure they have logged in to Moodle before. Once they log in to Moodle, their account will be generated and you will be able to add them to your course.
 

  6. You may remove a manually enrolled person from your course by clicking on the trash can symbol next to their name.

 

To Add a Participant to a Group:

1. Click on the pencil next to "No groups" in the user's row.

edit icon next to "no groups"
 

2. In the dropdown menu, choose the section the user should be added to, then the save icon.

course section list

 

Filtering and Searching for Users

The filter at the top of the Enrolled users screen allows for filtering by keyword, status, role, enrollment method, group, and inactivity. These conditions are buildable and can be set to Any or All. You can also select None to exclude a condition. Click the Apply filters button to execute the search.

Search filter for Enrolled Users

 

Resources

For more information on enrolling extra participants in a course, read the following documentation from Moodle Docs. Note that the documentation does not show the SNAP Theme, but the functionality of the settings is the same. All links will open in a new window.

 

Support & Training

The Faculty Technology Center (FTC) provides Moodle support by email, by phone, or live through Zoom. For contact information, please see the article Faculty Technology Center: LSU Overview. To connect through Zoom and for further information on support services and training, see the LSU Online & Continuing Education Faculty Resources & Support page.

The FTC also provides just-in-time faculty training opportunities and recorded training sessions. Attending at least one training session for Moodle upgrades is highly recommended. For a comprehensive list of available workshops and recordings, please see the LSU Online & Continuing Education Technology Training page.

 

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