Overview
Linking courses to a metacourse (or single course section) in Moodle allows for automatic syncing of enrollments. Metacourses are automatically created for professors who teach multiple sections of the same course, but metacourses can also be requested should one be needed for sections with different course numbers (e.g., a 200 and a 300 level course).
A metacourse is not required to link enrollments between courses; read the instructions below to learn how to manually link course enrollments from one course to another.
Linking Enrollments
⚠️ NOTE: You MUST be a Teacher in all courses you wish to link their enrollments.
At the top of your Moodle page,
- Select the Participants tab.
- Click on the Enrolled users drop-down menu and choose the Enrollment Methods option.
- Click on the Add method drop-down menu and select Course meta link.
- Start typing in the course shortname in the search box (ex. engl200-01).
- Select the desired course from the list then click on the Add method button.
Students are automatically added to groups named after the course shortname.
Questions?
If you need further assistance or have specific questions that aren't covered in this article, please don't hesitate to reach out for personalized support by submitting a Moodle Support ticket.
Acknowledgements
Contributions from Carly Born, Em Palencia, Wiebke Kuhn, Don Vosburg, Paula Lackie, Aleksander Prasolov '24, Paul Claudel Izabayo ‘25, and Mohammed Albarassi ‘28.