Moodle 2.0

Configuring Your Site
This ID number will match the student in Moodle to a record in the enrolment file.
For example, the following line from the file enrolls student 007 into the course with
an ID of EM102:
add, student, 007, EM102
In the Moodle database, you will find the student's ID number in the table mdl_user,
in the field idnumber:
If you want to use a flat file to mass enrol a group of students, and your users
don't have ID numbers, speak to your administrator about loading those numbers
directly into the Moodle database. They might be able to use a database command to
populate that field.
If your database administrator cannot add ID numbers for your users, you will need
to edit each user's profile manually and add the ID numbers to each user’s record.
Course ID required
If you use a flat file to enrol students in a course, the file will identify each course by
its ID number. The example that we saw earlier was:
add, student, 007, EM102
This ID can consist of any alphanumeric characters, not just digits, and can be up to
100 characters in length. On the Edit course settings page, you can see that Course
ID number is an optional field, as shown in the following screenshot:
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