Moodle-Learning-Management-System/C2/Enroll-Students-and-Communicate-in-Moodle/English-timed

Time	Narration
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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