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00:01 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Enroll students and communicate in Moodle.
00:08 In this tutorial, we will learn how to: Enroll students who were uploaded via a csv file to a course,
00:18 Make groups in courses and

Send messages and notes to the students.

00:26 This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS 16.04,
00:33 Apache, MariaDB and PHP obtained through XAMPP 5.6.30,
00:41 Moodle 3.3 and Firefox web browser.

You may use any web browser of your choice.

00:51 However, Internet Explorer should be avoided as it causes some display inconsistencies.
01:00 This tutorial assumes that:

your site administrator has registered you as a teacher

and assigned at least one course to you.

01:11 It also assumes that you have added some course material, assignments and quizzes for your course.
01:19 If not, please refer to the relevant Moodle tutorials on this website.
01:26 Before we begin, please ask your Moodle site administrator to add 5 or 6 users to your Moodle site.
01:36 You will be adding these new users to your course later. So ensure that new users are added to your Moodle site.
01:47 Teachers in Moodle cannot add new users to the system.

They can only enroll users that are already added by the site administrator.

01:59 Switch to the browser and login to your Moodle site as a teacher.
02:06 Click on the Calculus course in the left navigation menu.
02:11 Click on the gear icon at the top right and then on More....
02:18 We are on the Course Administration page.
02:22 Click on the Users tab.
02:25 Click on Enrolled users link within the Users section.
02:30 There are 2 users enrolled to this course - Rebecca Raymond and Priya Sinha.
02:38 Rebecca Raymond has teacher role and Priya Sinha has student role.
02:44 Now, click on the Enrol users button at the bottom right.
02:49 This list has students that I want to enroll to my Calculus course.
02:55 Select Student in the Assign Roles dropdown.
03:00 Then click on the Enrol button next to the users that you want to enroll.
03:06 I will enroll a few students in my course right now.
03:11 Once done, click on the Finish enrolling users button at the bottom right.
03:18 We can see the number of enrolled users for the Calculus course at the top of the page.
03:25 Next, let us learn how to make some groups in the course.
03:30 These groups will help us assign students for group activities.
03:36 I will make 2 groups - Explorers and Creators.
03:42 Click on Calculus in the breadcrumb to go back to the course page.
03:48 And go to the Course Administrator page again.
03:52 Click on Groups link in the Users tab.
03:56 Scroll down and click on Create group button.
04:01 Type Explorers as the Group name.
04:05 There are no other mandatory fields.
04:08 Scroll down and click on Save changes button.
04:12 Notice that Explorers can now be seen on the left side, in the list of groups.
04:19 The number zero next to it indicates that there are no users in that group yet.

Select Explorers, if not already selected.

04:30 Then click on Add/remove users button at the bottom right.
04:36 I will select Susmitha and Sai from the list of students.
04:42 And then click on Add button in the middle of the 2 columns.
04:48 On the left, observe the list of users in the group Explorers.
04:54 On the right, observe the list of all other students enrolled in this course.
05:00 They can be added to this group as and when required, by the teacher.
05:06 Add and Remove buttons between the 2 lists, get enabled when we select users from the lists.
05:15 Click on Back to groups button at the bottom of the page.
05:21 Pause this tutorial and do this small assignment. Add a new group called Creators
05:28 Assign 2 new users to that group

Resume the tutorial when done.

05:35 Now you should be able to see a screen like this.
05:40 Notice the columns Roles, Groups and Enrolment Methods have icons.
05:48 Move your mouse over each of the icons to understand their functions.
05:55 Note that: An enrolled student can belong to more than one group as well.
06:02 Let us now see how we can send a message to the students.
06:07 Click on Participants link in the left navigation bar.
06:12 This will show the list of all enrolled users with their assigned roles in the course.
06:19 By default, Moodle Participants page displays only 20 students.
06:25 You will need to click on Show all if you have more than 20 students to see all the students.

The link is not visible right now because I don’t have more than 20 students.

06:38 There are some filters seen above the list of users. Use them to help select the right set of users.
06:46 I will select Student in the Current role dropdown.
06:51 This will filter the list to show only the users who have student role assigned to them.
06:58 Click on Select all button at the bottom of the page to select all the students.
07:04 Then select Send a message in With selected users dropdown.
07:11 This will send a common message to all the selected students.
07:16 Pause the tutorial and type the message as shown here in the Message body.
07:22 Then at the bottom, click on the Preview button, to preview the message before sending.
07:29 You can also update the message, if required, by clicking on the Update button.
07:35 To send the message, click on the Send message button.
07:40 You will see a confirmation message and a link to go to back to the participants lists.
07:46 Click on Back to participants list.
07:50 Click on With selected users dropdown. Notice the options to send notes; both private and common.
08:00 Let’s select any 2 users.
08:03 Select Add a new note from the With selected users dropdown.
08:09 In the Content text area of one user, I will type the note as shown.
08:15 In the Content text area next to another user, I will type the note as shown here.
08:22 Look at the Context dropdown to the right.
08:26 The Context of a note determines which users can see the note.
08:31 A personal note will be seen only by the teacher and the student being sent to.
08:38 A course note will be visible to the other teachers of this course.
08:44 A site note will be visible to all teachers in all courses.
08:50 Most institutions have their own rules regarding communication between teachers and students.
08:57 You can decide the Context based on these guidelines.
09:02 I will let the Context be course.
09:06 Click on Save changes button when done.
09:10 With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.

Let us summarize.

09:16 In this tutorial, we learnt how to: Enroll users in a course
09:22 Make groups in a course and Send messages and notes to students.
09:29 Here is a small assignment for you.

Enroll all the users that were created by the Moodle site admin earlier, to the Calculus course.

09:40 Add new students to the existing groups and send them a welcome message.

Then send notes to the students.

09:50 Refer to the Assignment link of this tutorial for details.
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