Moodle plugins allows you to customize the appearance of Moodle LMS as well as extend its features. There may be times when as Moodle teacher you want the students to be enrolled in a course after they complete a course. In this post we will see how you can setup your Moodle course so that students need to complete a course in another category to enrol in your course.

In previous post, we have discussed about the ‘Course Completed Enrolment‘ plugin through which you can enrol users into a course after they have completed another course. But the plugin for today is ‘Enrol by Category’ which allows the users to enrol themselves into a course if they finished a course in a specific category previously. The Enrol by Category plugin also offers a waiting list feature.

Enrol by Category plugin

You can download the Enrol by Category plugin from the official plugin’s directory here. In case you are new to Moodle, please check out this guide to learn how to install Moodle plugin.

Once installed, you can add the enrollment method to your course. You can restrict a category as restriction for enrolment. So, the participants can only enrol if they finished a course in that specified category. Additionally, a time limit can be set to limit the course to participants which for example have finished a course in the specified category at most 6 months earlier. The time limit can be configured to count from when the course starts or when the course was created.

Additionally, you can setup a waitlist which will pause the enrolments when the maximum number of participants is reached. The plugin will send an email to all waitlist participants whenever there is an open slot through a scheduled task.  The teacher can manually enrol participants from the waiting list into the course bypassing the maximum participants limit.

What are the other popular Moodle plugins you are using on your Moodle site? Please share with us in the comments section below.

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