A course meta link makes it possible for all users enrolled in one course to be automatically enrolled in one or more other courses.
Example: If you have two runs of a module in the same semester you may choose to meta-link the Moodle courses. This allows you to maintain learning materials in a single ‘parent’ course while keeping the other ‘child’ course hidden from students. Students from both module runs will then access the same parent course.
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- Go to the main ‘parent’ course, the one you want to bring enrolments into.
- At the top of the course click the Participants tab (just below the course title).
- From the selection box (to the left of the Enrol users button) click and choose Enrolment methods.
- Click Add method > Course meta link.
- Type into the Link course search box to find the course you wish to bring enrolments from, and select it from the list.
- From the Add to group box select Create new group. Note: Creating a group is optional, but it can be useful if you wish to easily identify enrolments from both courses.
- Click Add method.
Participants from the source (‘child’) course will now be enrolled into the current (‘parent’) course. Any new users subsequently enrolled on the child course will automatically be added to the parent course as well.
You should only use meta-link enrolment to bring enrolments from child courses into the main parent course. Do not meta-link the parent course into a child course, and do not meta-link additional courses into the child courses.
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