Time for action – enrolling students when creating their accounts
We are going to create accounts for 500 students and enroll each student in two of our eighty courses that we created in Chapter 2, Building the Foundation—Creating Categories and Courses. I've chosen these numbers for our example in order to end up with each of the listening and speaking courses having an enrollment of 25 students. Real-world situations will, of course, vary depending upon registration policies, placement procedures, proficiency level variations, and any number of other factors unique to each educational program. Additionally, as we are setting up Moodle to function as a CIMS, we are operating under the assumption that all new students will have accounts created for them in the Moodle system. The creation process could be accomplished through a variety of procedures available within Moodle but for this example, we will use the Manual accounts setting and use a pre-formatted CSV (Comma-separated values) file...