Enrollment, or ‘enrollment’, is the process of marking users as participants in the course, in other words assigning them a role such as user or instructor.
Enrollment plugins
LMS provides a number of ways of managing course enrollment, called enrollment plugins. Click the links below for further information.
- Manual enrollment – the administrator or course instructor adds users manually
- Self enrollment – a user can choose to enroll him/herself into a course
- Cohort sync – users are part of a Cohort which is added to the course
- Course meta link – users enrolled in other courses are given automatic access
- Guest access – users can view course materials but not participate
- Category enrollments – users are enrolled in all courses in a category
- External database – users are enrolled from a database such as Access, MySQL
- Flat file – users are enrolled with a csv file
- IMS Enterprise – users are enrolled with this standard XML file format
- LDAP enrollment – users are authenticated and then enrolled through LDAP
- MNet remote enrollments – users are enrolled via a linked LMS site
- PayPal – users purchase enrollment with Paypal