Upgrade from a previous moodle version Go to site admin -> plugins -> enrol -> manual Check Default enrolment start value, it SHOULD be 'Today' Use or create a course to enrol students into (manual enrolments should be enabled) Enter the course and navigate to [Settings ► Users ► Enrolled users] . Click the 'Enrol users' button. Enrol a user and press 'Finish enrolling users' The enrolled users table SHOULD be updated and you SHOULD see a "Manual enrolments from ...." where ... is today at 12:00am Click the 'Enrol users' button. Expand "Enrolment options" The default value SHOULD be "Today..." Set "Starting from" to "Now" The time in "Now" option SHOULD be now and SHOULD depend on your selected timezone Enrol a user and press 'Finish enrolling users' The enrolled users table SHOULD be updated and you SHOULD see a "Manual enrolments from CURRENT TIME" next to the user you just enrolled Go to "Enrolment methods" and click on the "Enrol users" icon (in manual enrolments row) The default value of starting from select SHOULD be "Today..." Enrol a user Change starting from to "Now..." The time in "Now" option SHOULD be now and SHOULD depend on your selected timezone Enrol another user Return to "Enrolled users" Check that these last 2 enrolled users are using 12:00am or the current time respectively Set the system setting 'enrol_manual/enrolstart' default to 'Now' Disable JS in your browser Go to a course manual enrolments page and check that the default value for starting from select is "Now..." Change it to today and add some users The Starting from select box value SHOULD BE 'Today' Re-enable JS in your browser and click on Enrol users link again Press enrol users button and expand enrolment options 'Starting from' select box SHOULD default to 'Now' Install a new moodle site Go to site admin -> plugins -> enrol -> manual Check Default enrolment start value, it SHOULD be 'Now'