Enrolment Periods

We decided we want learners to have access to their courses for 60 days.  Their username will continue to be recognised for access to Mahara and site wide message boards but they will only have 60 day to access and complete paid content.

In Course Administration > Users > Enrolment Methods > Self Enrolment you cans elect how long the enrolment period lasts.  After this time if a user tries to access the course they just get a message saying "You cannot enrol yourself on this course"  This is because when an enrolment period is defined, Moodle sets a start and end date for their enrolment but doesn't actually un-enrol them from the course, if you look at enrolled users they are still there.

Say, somebody completes a course and gets their certificate and, two years later we email them to say the course has been updated to meet new legislation and they want to do the course again.  They can't access it even if they pay for it again because Moodle thinks they are already enrolled.

You can manually unenroll them or edit the unenroll date to give them access again but it's easier to set an un-enrol if inactive (on the same page as the enrolment period setting).  I've set it for 60 days (at least as long as the initial enrolment period).  That way if they complete the course and then don't look at it again they will be un-enrolled after 60 days, so they can re-enrol further down the line.

I've used the word enrol too many times.