You will receive requests if, when you created the course, you marked the options that says that students can voluntarily request their enrolment (see /wiki/spaces/ML/pages/4489861).
You will see the list of pending enrolment requests on the dashboard page, and you may be able to access them directly.
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- Go to "Courses" and click on one of them.
- Select the "Requests" tab.
- Mark Select the request which you are going to manage. Click on "Accept selected" to allow the enrolment or "Reject selected" to refuse it.
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