A brief overview of Cohorts in Moodle 2.0

1. Cohorts in Moodle 2.0 Exploring the Possibilities... LindyKlein.com

4. 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?

5. 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

6. 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

7. The Difference... Groups and Groupings cannot be allocated to other courses – Cohorts can!

8. 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):

9. How Are Cohorts Created? One of two ways, either through Users or Courses: Or

10. 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_n0eVI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMqaeOGXuHQ

11. Cohort Creation - COurses

12. Cohort Creation – Courses cont’d

13. Cohort Creation – Courses Cont’d

14. Seeing Cohorts Cohorts can only be seen in the context they were created for – so be careful!

15. Customising What Users Can See Image courtesy k8marieuk, available from http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1092504 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!

16. 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

17. 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.