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COHORTS IN MOODLE 2.0Exploring the Possibilities... LindyKlein.com
WHY COHORTS?
Corporate confidentiality (eg Client A must not see Client B’s courses)
Collections of users independent of teaching courses, such as community groups (eg All of Year 9 students)
Easier enrolment options! Uses in your context?
WHAT ARE COHORTS?
Simply put, using cohorts is a way of categorising users in your Moodle system...
The term “cohort” has been introduced to signal the difference between cohorts, groups and groupings (as opposed to the previous term “system-wide groups”)
A cohort is a collection of users, that can be allocated across a Moodle system as a whole, or across course categories
SO WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE??
Cohort – a collection of users within a system-wide or course category
Group – a collection of users within a course
Grouping – a collection of groups within a course
THE DIFFERENCE...
Groups and Groupings cannot be allocated to other courses – Cohorts can!
SO WHO CAN CREATE COHORTS?
By default, only the system administrator and manager can create, delete and manage cohorts BUT:
This can be added to other roles, by setting privileges in the define role area (Site Administration>Users>Permissions>Define Roles):
HOW ARE COHORTS CREATED?
One of two ways, either through Users or Courses:
Or
COHORT CREATION - USERS
Two great YouTube videos are available demonstrating how to create cohorts from the User options – check them
out:http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMWZW_n0eVIhttp
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMqaeOGXuHQ
COHORT CREATION - COURSES
COHORT CREATION – COURSES CONT’D
COHORT CREATION – COURSES CONT’D
SEEING COHORTS
Cohorts can only be seen in the context they were created for – so be careful!
CUSTOMISING WHAT USERS CAN SEE
Be aware that the front page settings override cohort settings, so if you’re using cohorts to keep courses only visible to cohort-based users, don’t enable visibility of courses or categories on the Front Page!
Image courtesy k8marieuk, available from http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1092504
ALTERING COHORT ENROLMENTS
Remember, when you unenrol a cohort, you remove all the user data from the course!
Same goes for when you remove a user from a cohort – all the data is removed with them!
Image courtesy ba1969, avail from http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1344755
WAYS YOU CAN USE COHORTS!
Cohorts are great for when you have naturally occuring categories of users that are spread across more than one course enrolment. For example, a collection of Science teachers needing a space to share ideas, a collection of students all studying the same degree, but many different courses, or corporate clients who need their own private spaces.