November 17, 2021

Allow Educator Create User Account and Register to Courses on Open edX

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Educator can add new user and enroll the student into a courses by upload of a CSV file that contains a list of new accounts to create and register for course. But, by default this feature is not enable. To enable it, follow the steps below:

  1. Go to Open edX server console.

  2. Open and edit LMS configuration (/edx/app/edxapp/lms.env.json or /edx/etc/lms.yml).

  3. Then find the "FEATURES" configuration, add ALLOW_AUTOMATED_SIGNUPS into "FEATURES" array and set to true. See the following codes snippet:

    ...
FEATURES:
    ALLOW_AUTOMATED_SIGNUPS: true
...
  1. Restart LMS services.

After that, you can check it. Open course page, go to in the membership tab of instructor dashboard. This feature ready on Register/Enroll Students section.

To register and enroll a list of users in this course, just upload a CSV file that contains the following columns in this exact order: email, username, name, and country code (include one student per row and do not include any headers, footers, or blank lines). See the following sample of csv content:

[email protected],test_student_3,Air Green,ID
[email protected],test_student_4,Faizar Septiawan,

After you select a CSV file and upload it, the system will process it and user or student will receive a email to access courses. See screenshot for sample email received by user or student.

Sample email if new user was added to Open edX.

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Sample email if existing user was enrolled into a courses.

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Also you can update email template, see the path below for email template:

  • email template for new user was added to Open edX : /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/lms/templates/instructor/edx_ace/accountcreationandenrollment/email/
  • email template for existing user was enrolled into a courses : /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/lms/templates/instructor/edx_ace/enrollenrolled/email/