The course creator, and course team members with the Staff and Admin roles, can enroll learners in a course, see how many people are enrolled, and, when necessary, unenroll learners on the Instructor Dashboard.
Learners can enroll themselves in a course during its defined enrollment
period. For a www.edx.org
course, enrollment is publicly available to
anyone who registers an edX account. For other courses, such as those on
edge.edx.org
, enrollment is limited to learners who know the course URL
and learners you explicitly enroll.
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Data about course enrollment is also available from edX Insights. You access Insights from the Instructor Dashboard for your live course: after you select Instructor, follow the link in the banner at the top of each page. For more information, see Using edX Insights.
Before a learner can enroll in a course, he or she must complete these steps.
www.edx.org
, edge.edx.org
, or your implementation of the edX
platform. Each platform requires a separate user account.As long as the course Enrollment End Date has not passed, learners who
have registered and activated user accounts can enroll themselves in
www.edx.org
courses, or can enroll in other courses if they know the URL.
Course creators, Admins, and Staff, however, can enroll learners in a course either before or after the learners register their user accounts.
Important
To work on a course, every course team member must register and activate a user account and enroll.
You enroll learners, and other course team members, in your course by supplying their email addresses. After the Enrollment End Date for a course learners can no longer enroll themselves; however, you can still explicitly enroll learners.
When you enroll people in a course you have these options:
Auto Enroll. When you choose this option, the people who you enroll do not need to complete an explicit course enrollment step. Of the list of email addresses that you supply, those that correspond to a registered user account are immediately enrolled in the course, and your course displays on the Current Courses dashboard for those users on log in. Email addresses on the list that do not match a registered user account are enrolled as soon as that account is registered and activated.
You can track the enrollment status of the learners who you auto enroll. For more information, see Report Learners Not Yet Enrolled.
If you do not select Auto Enroll, the people who you enroll must also actively locate your course and enroll themselves in it. These learners see the course on their dashboards after they have done so.
Notify learners by email. When you choose this option, an email message is automatically sent to each of the email addresses that you supply. The message includes the name of the course and, for learners who are not already enrolled, a reminder to use that same email address to enroll.
An example of the email message that a learner received when this option was selected during enrollment follows. In this example, the learner already had a registered and activated edx.org account, and both Auto Enroll and Notify students by email were selected.
To enroll learners or course team members, follow these steps.
You can copy and paste data from a CSV file of email addresses. However, note that this feature is better suited to courses with smaller enrollments, rather than courses with massive enrollments.
Note
If your course has a fee, and an organization wants to purchase enrollment for multiple seats in your course at one time, you can create enrollment codes for the organization. The organization then distributes these enrollment codes to its learners to simplify the enrollment process. You can also create coupon codes to give learners a discount when they enroll in your course. For more information, see Manage Course Fees.
After you create a course, you can access the total number of people who are enrolled in it. When you view an enrollment count, note the following
In addition to learners, the enrollment count includes all course team members, including Admins and Staff. (To work with a course in Studio, the LMS, or Insights, you must be enrolled in that course.)
Learners can unenroll from courses, and course Admins and Staff can unenroll learners when necessary.
Note: The enrollment count displays the number of currently enrolled learners and course team members. It is not a historical count of everyone who has ever enrolled in the course.
The total number of current enrollees is shown as the sum of the number of people who selected each of the certification tracks (verified, professional, or honor) that are available for your course.
To view the enrollment count for a course, follow these steps.
The Enrollment Information section of the page that opens shows the number of people who are currently enrolled in your course and in each of the certification tracks.
You can also view or download a list of the people who are enrolled in the course. See Student Data.
After you enroll learners in a course using the Auto Enroll option, any learner who does not yet have a user account must register and activate an account to complete the enrollment process. In addition, the learner must register the account using the same email address that was used for auto enrollment. You can download a report of auto enrolled email addresses that do not yet correspond to an enrolled learner.
To download this report, follow these steps.
A status message indicates that report generation is in progress. This process can take some time to complete, but you can navigate away from this page and do other work while it runs.
To track the progress of the report process, reload the page in your browser and scroll down to the Pending Tasks section.
{org}_{course_id}_may_enroll_info_{date}.csv
file name at the bottom of
the page.You can remove learners from a course by unenrolling them. To prevent learners from re-enrolling, course enrollment must also be closed. You use Studio to set the Enrollment End Date for the course to a date in the past. See Setting Start and End Dates.
Note: Unenrollment does not delete data for a learner. An unenrolled learner’s state remains in the database and is reinstated if the learner does re-enroll.
To unenroll learners, you supply the email addresses of enrolled learners.
Note
The Auto Enroll option has no effect when you select Unenroll.