Moodle 2.0

Chapter 3
The specific overrides the general
In Moodle, as in most systems, settings for a specific scope override
settings for a more general scope. Many settings that apply to your
whole site can be overridden by settings for a specific course, and,
many settings that apply to an entire course can be overridden by
settings for a specific activity within that course.
Enable
This setting determines if the enrolment method is available to your courses. To
make a method available, click on the eye to open it. To make it unavailable, click
on the eye to close it.
Up/Down
Use the up and down arrows to put the enrolment methods in the order that you
want Moodle to use them. The first enrolment method that contains the username
of the user who is trying to log in, will determine if the user is authorized.
For example, suppose the username jsmith1 is in Moodle's internal database, and
also in an external database. In the following screenshot, the password and profile
from Moodle's internal database would be used, because Manual enrolments is
listed above External database:
The other, non-interactive enrollment methods are external databases or servers that
are managed outside of Moodle.
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