Finally, a use for cohorts!

One of my customers called today and said something like "James, so and so can't access the course I created on the new moodle server you set up"....

I try not to assume too much sometimes, but then I think, was I supposed to explain that part to them?

Anyway, turns out after creating the accounts, which I helped with last week, they were not enrolled into the courses created where access was being requested.

My customer created 12 new courses and have 4 people who needed to access each of them.  I could have enrolled each of the accounts in each of the courses or I could have created a batch file and added the username and course short name, probably another field or two.  OR

I could create a cohort, add the accounts to the cohort and then enroll the cohort once into each course.  Since I had not ever used cohorts, I decided to give that a go!

My initial finding are this:  cohorts are pretty useful, but a little buried in the menu. 

After I explained to my customer that I created a cohort, enrolled the users in it and enrolled the cohort into the courses, she said "oh, great idea", how to we add this person and that person too?

Well, that was a perfect setup!  I simply added the two additional people into the cohort and that was it!  No other enrollment necessary.  What a setup!

Moral of the story?  Don't be afraid to try things that you have not used before, it is how you learn~!

Additional cohort finding:

Create the cohort first
Add the accounts to the cohort next
Enroll the cohort (pay attention to the role you want to enroll the cohort into) - every member of the cohort will get the same role! 
Edit the cohort - to add a new member by

Use the assign icon to the far right to invoke the enrollment form for the cohort.

Remove an enrolled cohort by:
Go to Course Administration > Users > Enrolment Methods. If you have enrolled a cohort, the cohort will be listed on the page. Click the X to remove it.