A person in a completely unrelated field sent me an email, of which an excerpt  appears below:

I am in the process of building a moodle [cut] website for our institute…The website should offer the following capabilities:

Participants to take all courses offered online.

Participants to be able to chat, have a forum, and discussion sections for each course.

Participants must complete courses in a set order and must complete certain requirements to go to the next course.

All participants must be registered to take courses.

Can Moodle handle all this? The answer is YES, definitely. But what should be in my response to this person? Here are a few of the possible responses:

1. Can Moodle make it possible for participants to register for courses and then take the courses online?
Yes, the real question is how you want to facilitate registration of the courses and registration. Some ideas come to mind:

• Auto-Registration – Setup Moodle courses with separate groups (Force Groups? Yes) and enrollment keys per group. Schedule courses at regular intervals, post a calendar with the enrollment key and allow participants to self-enroll.

  You might setup a questionnaire (using the module by the same name) to collect the student information and then have it send them to a page with instructions on how to login using the appropriate enrollment key for the course starting and ending per published schedule.

• Interest Form – Have interested students fill out a form for the course(s) they are interested in, then send them the information via email. This approach involves maybe having a standard email that is sent to students with all the information they’ll need to successfully register and complete an online class. The email would be customized to include the course title, start/end dates, link to registration, and the group enrollment key so they can sign up and participate. Upon successful completion–the last activity in sequence–participants would get a certificate or receive a confirmation email.

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