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Student support

There are 3 ways to grant student access:

• Autoenroll (autofetch) from PeopleSoft
• Allow students to self-enroll
• Add students manually

Autofetch records from Peoplesoft for academic courses

If your site is for an academic course, and you are an instructor of record, you can set up autofetching of student records from PeopleSoft. All adds and drops will be processed automatically based on the official enrollment data.

• Go to the course homepage.
• Click Automatic Enrollment link in the Administration block. You will see a list of all academic courses which you are officially teaching.
• Click Add? link to add a 5-digit call number. The status column will change to "Enabled", and students, who are registered for this section, will be added to the Moodle site in 1 hour.
  • DO NOT ADD ALL CALL NUMBERS that you see; select only those that correspond to the title of the particular Moodle site.
  • Add multiple call numbers only in the case when your course is cross-listed.
  • Double-check the semester that you are adding.

Allow self-enrollment

• Set up a one-time enrollment key:
  • Go to the course homepage
  • Click Settings in the Administration block
  • Type an enrollment key
  • Click the Save changes button
• Send an email to prospective participants, providing them with the direct URL to your Moodle site homepage and an enrollment key.
• Students will be able to self-enroll, once they authenticate with their Internet ID or University Guest ID (instructions for students).

Add students manually

You can search for students and add them manually to your class list. In your Moodle course:

• Click the Assign Roles link in the Administration block.
• Click the Student link
• Click in the Search field under the right column. Type a name or email.
• Click the Search button
  • IMPORTANT: If you cannot find people, it means that they need to activate their Moodle accounts first.
• Highlight the name of a student and click the Add arrow pointing to the left.

Useful tips

• It is possible for anyone with a Moodle ID to self-enroll into courses that do not have an enrollment key (one-time password). Therefore, it is important to have an enrollment key in place all the time, even if you use autofetching from PeopleSoft.

• Role changes only take effect after the next login from the user.
  If you assign a role to a user, or override any of the roles capabilities, the user must log out from the Moodle system completely and then log back in, in order to see changes.