Tips: Managing affiliate student enrollment in Moodle

Digital Education have had a number of questions recently, all centred around Portico Enrolments being on and automatically removing Affiliate / Term 1 only students after they are no longer ‘active’ in Portico (but may still need Moodle access).

Unfortunately, there is nothing we can do at a technical level to address this. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a solution, it just means the solution is more of a work around. This post is here to give you our top tips on managing affiliate student enrolment in Moodle.

We would advise either:

A)      Affiliates should be manually or self enrolled, so that it Portico changes have no impact.  (Downside could be extra work for admins).

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B)      Portico Enrolments are de-activated once the cohort is ‘set’ so that Moodle ignores Portico changes.  (Downside is any genuine joiners / leavers not updated).

Hopefully this is helpful. As always if you have any other questions you can contact the Digital Education team by raising a ticket in the self-service portal or by phoning the ISD Service Desk.