Moodle Cohorts offer administrators an easy way to organize & group the learners, so that these users can be easily enrolled in a course. The cohorts can be created by the Admin at Site level or at category level. The purpose of cohorts is to enable all members of the cohort to be easily enrolled in a course.
However, adding users into the cohorts can be a tedious task for the administrators especially when there are new users added in the Moodle. The Smart Cohort Moodle plugin can be of great help in such cases. It allows the users to be automatically added to cohorts based on the filters.
The Smart Cohort Moodle plugin allows you to set custom rules to add the users into cohorts. The rules can be based on any profile field like Name, email, city, country, institution, department, suspended, etc. It will automatically add the users based on the set filters whenever the cron runs for your Moodle.
This can make the life of Moodle administrators easier and help them save a lot of time by adding users automatically to the cohorts instead of manual addition.
Here is a screencast to show how Smart Cohort plugin works in Moodle:
You can download the Smart Cohort Moodle plugin from the official plugins repository here. After installing the plugin, you will get a new link under Site Admin > users > Smart Filters. The interface is pretty easy afterwards as you can click the Create Rule button to add a new rule.
Once a rule is created it will show you the conditions for the rule as well the option to view the members within the cohort. During my testing, the plugin works like a charm and added the students pretty easily. All you need is to have some cohorts ready on your Moodle before creating the rules.
Let us know what do you think about the Smart Cohorts Moodle plugin? Please share your views in the comments section below.
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