# Moodle auto-enrollment techniques

To clarify the question, we’re looking for ways that large Moodle installations get their class roster data into Moodle in as close to real-time as possible. Answers could include links to discussions of this topic or documentation specific to this.

There are a number of ways to enroll large number of students in Moodle sites. They are called [Enrollment Plugins](http://docs.moodle.org/en/Enrolment_plugins).

I’ll give the example we use over at the Grad School of Ed. It may not be the most efficient but it gets the job done. We are looking into <span class="caps">LDAP</span> Enrollment to see if it will actually make things easier.

We obtain course information from the Registrars office and from that we import them into their courses via the “”[http://docs.moodle.org/en/Upload\_users](http://docs.moodle.org/en/Upload_users)"&gt;Upload Users."

Moodle Links  
[Moodle <span class="caps">LDAP</span> Enrollment](http://docs.moodle.org/en/LDAP_enrolment#LDAP_Enrollment_HOWTO_.28by_Lars_Jensen.29)  
[Moodle <span class="caps">LDAP</span> Enrollment <span class="caps">HOWTO</span> Forum](http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=31761)