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Student support

1. Check the student list
2. Add students, if necessary
3. Double-check with UmReports
4. Unhide your site from students
5. Inform your students

1. Check whether your students were added to the site

• Go to the course homepage.
• Click Assign roles in the Administration block.
• Click Student link.
• Review the list of existing users with the Student role.

2. Add students, if necessary

For the sites that support academic courses: autoentoll (autofetch) from PeopleSoft:

• Go to the course homepage.
• Click the 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. 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 a case your course is cross-listed.
  • Double-check the semester that you are adding.

For non-academic sites: allow participants to self-enroll or add them manually.

3. Double-check with UmReports

For academic sites, make sure to check UmReports to verify that your student list in Moodle is up-to-date:

• Go to UmReports: http://www.umreports.umn.edu.
• Search for the report titled Class Lists.
• Browse to your course to see the list of officially registered students.

4. Unhide your site to make it available to the students

• Go to the course homepage.
• Click Settings in the Administration panel.
• Under Availability choose This course is available to students.
• Click Save changes button.

Important:

• Make sure to have an enrollment key in place otherwise anyone with a Moodle ID will be able to self-enroll into your site (your autofetched students do not need to know it at all).
• Never enable anonymous read-only access, otherwise anyone in the whole world will be able to access and browse though your course site.

5. Inform your students that your Moodle site is available

You may want to contact your students and let them know that they can access course resources via Moodle course management system.

• How to contact participants: http://umn.edu/moodle/instructor/guides/contact.html
• How participants can access Moodle sites: http://.umn.edu/moodle/students/guides/access.html