Open and closed cohorts

Groups and enrolment keys

You may wish to run the same course with several supported cohorts, either at the same time or in successive groups.

You can use the groups function to set up each cohort, which will need a title, a cohort code, a description and a cohort enrolment key.

Create groups

In the Administration block click on OpenLearners and then Groups.

Click on Create group.

In the form that appears, fill in the Group name, Group ID number, Group description and Enrolment key fields. Try not to make the enrolment key easy to guess: ideally it should be a mix of upper- and lower-case characters, at least one special character such as * or #, and some numbers. When you’ve done this, click on Save changes.

You can edit the group details by clicking on Edit group settings. 

If you want to import several groups with their associated enrolment keys, you can import them in a .TXT file that contains the values separated by commas. You will need the following headings for the data in the .TXT file, so the data for each group should be in this order:

groupname,groupidnumber,description,enrolmentkey