Moodle/C2/Course-enrollment-and-communication-in-Moodle/English

Title of the script: Moodle 4.5 – Course Enrollment and Communication in Moodle

Author: Nancy Varkey

Keywords: moodle, moodle lms, lms, learning management system, educational lms, open-source lms, enroll students, assign roles, send messages, add notes, notifications, Moodle communication

Visual Cues	Narration
Slide: Title	Welcome to this Spoken Tutorial on Moodle 4.5 - Course Enrollment and Communication in Moodle.
Slide: Learning Objectives	In this tutorial, we will learn how the teacher: Enrolls students into a course Assigns Student role to a registered user Sends a message to all students Adds notes for students
Slide: Target Audience	This tutorial is intended for teachers who want to enroll students into their course and communicate with them in Moodle.
Slide: System Requirements This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS version 22.04 Moodle version 4.5 Firefox browser You can use any OS or web browser of your choice.	Recorded with Ubuntu, Moodle 4.5, and Firefox. Use any OS or web browser of your choice.
Slide: Prerequisites To follow this tutorial, you should have: Moodle 4.5 installed Teacher access to a Moodle course For the prerequisite Moodle tutorials, please visit https://EduPyramids.org	Here are the prerequisites to learn this video.
Point to the user icon	We are logged in as teacher Nitya Jeevan.
Click on My courses → Calculus Point to Amina.	Click on My courses, Calculus, Participants. We can see one student Amina. This student was enrolled earlier by the Site Administrator into the Calculus course.
Point to Nitya and Teacher role. Point to Site Administrator. Point to Amina and Student role.	Generally, in academic institutions, the teachers inform the Site Administrator to add a list of students into their courses.
Point to Site Administrator.	Please note: Moodle Site Administrator is enrolled in every course by default.
Click: Enroll users → Pop-up opens	Let’s now enroll the other student Mahima into this course. Click on Enroll users at the bottom-right.
In the pop-up box, select the user Mahima from the list. Ensure the role is set to Student and click Enroll users.
Confirm enrolled user appears in the list	Mahima is now enrolled in the Calculus course and listed under Participants. Likewise, the teacher can enroll all students into her course.
Click: Select users Amina and Mahima Uncheck Mahima	Let’s now learn to send a message to all students. Select the students Amina and Mahima by clicking the checkbox next to their names. If you want to message just one student, then select that student only.
Check Select All checkbox → uncheck Teacher Nitya and Site Administrator checkboxes	If the list of students is very long, you can check the Select All checkbox at the top. Then uncheck the Teacher and the Site Administrator.
“With selected users...” dropdown → Select Send a message	Click on With selected users… Select the option Send a message.
Message window opens	A message window opens.
Type a message → Dear Students, We will have Prof.Kannan Moudgalya from IIT Bombay address the class on 22nd July 2025 at 11am in the Eklavya conference hall. Please make sure you are there to attend his talk. Thanks, Prof.Nitya Jeevan	Type your message in the message box.
Click Send message	Click Send message to notify the selected students.
Point to Amina and Mahima	Next, let’s add notes for students. Ensure Amina and Mahima are selected.
“With selected users...” dropdown → Select Add a note	Click on With selected users… Select the option Add a new note.
Context dropdown → course	Context dropdown shows course, by default.
Type the following content: Look at the crossword puzzle available on https://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/Data/best/math/calculus.01.html I think you will find this interesting.	Type the note and click Add a new note. Depending on the settings configured by the Site Administrator, the note could be visible to other managers and teachers in this course.
	And that’s how the teacher enrolls students manually in her course and communicates with them in Moodle!
Login as mahima.singh Password Mahima@123	Now, let’s logout and login as student Mahima.
Dashboard → at the top right → bell icon → point to 4	On the Dashboard, at the top right, look at the bell icon. It says 4 next to it. That’s because Moodle sent a total of 4 notifications to Mahima.
Click the bell icon	Click on the bell icon to view the subject line of the notifications.
Click View full notification	Click View full notification to read each full message.
Click each notification one by one	While you are on this page, you can navigate through all the notifications one by one.
Dashboard → at the top right → callout icon → point to 4 → point to Private	On the Dashboard, at the top right, look at the callout icon. It says 1 next to it. That’s because the teacher has sent a total of 1 message to Mahima. Also, the message is listed below Private.
Click the callout icon → sidebar expands	Click on the callout icon. Immediately the sidebar expands and we can view a few words of the message the teacher sent. Also the message is listed below Private.
Click right arrow → click left arrow	Click the right arrow to expand and read the whole message. Then click the left arrow to collapse the message.
Slide: Important Information	Unlike announcements or forum posts, notes are not visible publicly on the course page for students. It depends on the student’s access rights and the context at which the notes have been set. The students get email notifications for each note sent by the teacher.
	So that’s how students view notifications and messages in Moodle!
Slide: Summary To summarise, in this tutorial, we learnt how a teacher can: Enroll students into a course Assign Student role to a registered user Send a message to all students Add notes for students	Here is the summary of this tutorial.
Slide: Assignment As an assignment: In the “Advanced Algebra” course, add a personal note to student Amina - Please help the new student Mahima with your class notes to get her familiar with what has already been covered in the course. Keep the Context as course.	We encourage you to try out this assignment.
Slide: Acknowledgement Domain Expert: Nancy Varkey	This tutorial is brought to you by EduPyramids Educational Service, SINE, IIT Bombay. Thank you for watching!

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