Moodle

Implement new functionality to limit the number of participants in a course.

Details

  • Type: New Feature New Feature
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.6
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0
  • Component/s: Enrolments
  • Labels:
    None
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_16_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_20_STABLE

Description

This feature was requested by Timothy Takemoto.

See this forum for more on this topic.
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=50063
Ken Wilson has written code for this feature. See attached zip file.

From Tim:
It would be nice to combine [the feature] with a method of limiting the number of courses that students can sign onto. Perhpas within the course their might be a setting

"Only allow one course registration to courses within category..."
followed by a drop down box showing the categories (and parent, and grand parent categories) that the course belongs to.

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This issue has been marked as being related by:
MDL-17949 List of problems related to potential enrolment rewrite in 2.0 - META Minor Closed

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N Hansen added a comment -

I've been using this hack, but one of the limitations I find with it is that if I need to manually enroll a student when I am already at the maximum (as I must do if a student pays with a check instead of Paypal), I must change the number allowed before I can enroll manually. Now, it is theoretically possible that in the short time I increase the number to allow myself to be able to manually enroll a student, another student could come along and enroll via Paypal because there is an extra space available. It would be nice if this limit could be applied to self-enrolled students (either via Paypal or other methods), but allow the teacher to override it for manual enrolments.

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N Hansen added a comment - I've been using this hack, but one of the limitations I find with it is that if I need to manually enroll a student when I am already at the maximum (as I must do if a student pays with a check instead of Paypal), I must change the number allowed before I can enroll manually. Now, it is theoretically possible that in the short time I increase the number to allow myself to be able to manually enroll a student, another student could come along and enroll via Paypal because there is an extra space available. It would be nice if this limit could be applied to self-enrolled students (either via Paypal or other methods), but allow the teacher to override it for manual enrolments.
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Ken Wilson added a comment -

Added myself as the QA on this one

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Ken Wilson added a comment - Added myself as the QA on this one
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Sascha Stonefield added a comment -

I would like to have that feature in the version 1.7 as well...

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Sascha Stonefield added a comment - I would like to have that feature in the version 1.7 as well...
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Timothy Takemoto added a comment -

I think that I will use Ken Wilson's hack because I am still on 1.6.

I think I will be able to hack the additional feature that limits the number of courses that students can enrol on to one.

Tim

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Timothy Takemoto added a comment - I think that I will use Ken Wilson's hack because I am still on 1.6. I think I will be able to hack the additional feature that limits the number of courses that students can enrol on to one. Tim
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Timothy Takemoto added a comment - - edited

But on second thoughts I doubt if this will work with student self enrolment using an enrolment key. Full enrolment into the class should only occur when the student turns up to the class and recieves an enrolment key. This means that preregistration needs to be a a sort of temporary enrolment, and I don't think that Ken's hack will acheive this.

Oh dammit sorry. I see that i had foreseen this need for dual enrolment before and also figured a work around using my redirect courses, which would provide the "temporary enrolment" needed as mentioned in the paragraph above. So ken's hack should work for me.

Sorry for all these changes. I will shut up now.

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Timothy Takemoto added a comment - - edited But on second thoughts I doubt if this will work with student self enrolment using an enrolment key. Full enrolment into the class should only occur when the student turns up to the class and recieves an enrolment key. This means that preregistration needs to be a a sort of temporary enrolment, and I don't think that Ken's hack will acheive this. Oh dammit sorry. I see that i had foreseen this need for dual enrolment before and also figured a work around using my redirect courses, which would provide the "temporary enrolment" needed as mentioned in the paragraph above. So ken's hack should work for me. Sorry for all these changes. I will shut up now.
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Bruce Schmoetzer added a comment -

This file was created by Alan Barrett to upgrade the hack from v1.6 to v1.8.4. It still needs some help as (at least for me on Moodle 1.8.4+ (2007021541)) it fails to display the number of Available Places remaining in a course on the All Courses page or on the Available Courses list on the Front Page. Otherwise it works as advertised.

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Bruce Schmoetzer added a comment - This file was created by Alan Barrett to upgrade the hack from v1.6 to v1.8.4. It still needs some help as (at least for me on Moodle 1.8.4+ (2007021541)) it fails to display the number of Available Places remaining in a course on the All Courses page or on the Available Courses list on the Front Page. Otherwise it works as advertised.
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Bruce Schmoetzer added a comment -

This file was created by Alan Barrett to upgrade the hack from v1.8.4 to v1.9_Release. It still needs some help as (at least for me on Moodle 1.9 + (Build: 20080329)) it fails to display the number of Available Places remaining in a course on the All Courses page or on the Available Courses list on the Front Page. Otherwise it works as advertised.

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Bruce Schmoetzer added a comment - This file was created by Alan Barrett to upgrade the hack from v1.8.4 to v1.9_Release. It still needs some help as (at least for me on Moodle 1.9 + (Build: 20080329)) it fails to display the number of Available Places remaining in a course on the All Courses page or on the Available Courses list on the Front Page. Otherwise it works as advertised.
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Bruce Schmoetzer added a comment -

OK, I was wrong. The original 19_Release version broke my 1.9_Stable (Moodle 1.9 + (Build: 20080329)) install. There was a new function in moodle/course/lib.php that was failing when called from elsewhere in the 19_Stable release. So I manually upgraded the 1.9+ lib.php file and have added it to this set of files. Sorry for the confusion.

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Bruce Schmoetzer added a comment - OK, I was wrong. The original 19_Release version broke my 1.9_Stable (Moodle 1.9 + (Build: 20080329)) install. There was a new function in moodle/course/lib.php that was failing when called from elsewhere in the 19_Stable release. So I manually upgraded the 1.9+ lib.php file and have added it to this set of files. Sorry for the confusion.
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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment -

Hello,
the new enrol/self plugin i nMoodle 2.0dev implements this functionality.
Thank you for the report.

Petr Skoda

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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment - Hello, the new enrol/self plugin i nMoodle 2.0dev implements this functionality. Thank you for the report. Petr Skoda

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