Moodle is one of the world’s most popular open source learning management system with more than 415 million users around the world. It allows you to easily create, distribute and manage online learning courses. In this post we will take a look at the Invitation Moodle plugin.
By default, Moodle LMS comes with many enrollment methods in core. There is a vast variety of Moodle plugins which can be used to expand the enrollment methods to different systems or different areas (such as enrollment restrictions).
However, by default Moodle comes with Self-enrollment method which allows the users to enroll themselves into a course. You can configure it in a way such that the students needs to enter an enrollment key to enroll themselves.
The Invitation Moodle plugin allows instructors to invite students to their course and site, and grant necessary access and role to them. The invitation is sent via email and contains a link with an unique, one-time use invitation token.
This plugin offers control over who can use the invitation, tracks past invitations, and allows for resending or revoking invitations. It also supports inviting users even if they are not yet registered on your Moodle LMS site and limiting the lifespan of the invitation.
The features of using the Invitation Moodle plugin over the Enrollment keys are:
- You can control who can use the invitation.
- You can include a personalized message in the invitation.
- You can see a history of past invitations and their status.
- You can also see who used an invitation or which ones are expired.
- You can resend expired invitations or send reminder invitations.
- You can revoke the invitation if has not yet been accepted.
- You can invite users who do not yet have an account. However, they will need to create an account before they can accept the invitation.
- You can limit invitations to users with existing accounts.
- You can limit the lifespan of the invitation (e.g. 2 weeks)
You can download the Invitation Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here.
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