Moodle 2.0

Configuring Your Site
3. Click on the Enrol cohort button (by default, this button doesn't appear for
Teachers, only for Administrators). A pop-up window appears. This window
lists the Cohorts defined to the site.
4. Next to the Cohort that you want to enrol, click on Enrol users. The system
displays a confirmation message.
5. At the confirmation message, click on the OK button. You are taken back to
the Enrolled users page.
Notice that although you can enrol all of the users in a Cohort all at
once, there is no button to unenrol them all at once—you will need to
remove them from your course, one at a time.
Category enrolments
If you used a previous version of Moodle, and enrolled students in courses using
Category roles, then activating this enrolment method will enable you to import
those enrolments into the new version of Moodle. If you're not importing Category
roles from a previous version, you can leave this enrolment method deactivated.
Flat file
A "flat file" is a text file that contains information in a simple text format. The flat file
method of student enrolment causes Moodle to read in a text file, and use that as the
source for enrolment information. The flat file method is especially useful if you need
to enrol a large group of people who have records in another system.
For example, suppose that all of the nurses at your hospital need to be trained in
patient privacy laws. We can assume that the nurses have records in the hospital's
human resource or payroll system. Or, suppose all of the teachers at your school
need to be trained on new educational standards. These teachers will probably have
records in the school's e-mail or human resources system. If you can get a flat file, or
text file, containing a list of everyone who needs to be trained, and that file contains
their ID Numbers, you are well on your way to enrolling them all at once. You might
want to speak to the system administrator of the other system, and ask them for an
"extract" from their system.
The file
The flat file has the following format:
operation, role, ID number of user, ID number of course
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