Site policies

Location: Administration > Security > Site policies

Open to Google

Enabling this setting allows Google's search spiders guest access to your site. Any part of the site that allows guest access will then be searchable on Google. In addition, people coming in to your site via a Google search will automatically be logged in as a guest.

Maximum uploaded file size

Probably the most frequently asked question in the Moodle.org Using Moodle forums is "How do I increase the upload file size limit?"

Upload file sizes are restricted in a number of ways - each one in this list restricts the following ones:

1. The Apache setting LimitRequestBody.
2. The PHP settings post_max_size and upload_max_filesize.
3. The site-wide maximum uploaded file size setting in Administration > Security > Site policies.
4. The course maximum uploaded file size setting in the course settings.
5. Certain activity module settings.

Enable messaging system

Click the checkbox to enable site-wide Messaging.

Note: If you enable the messaging system, all users will be able to send and receive messages at any time. Teachers can't choose whether or not messaging is allowed between students in their particular course.

Force Users to Login

If you turn this setting on all users must login before they even see the front page of the site.

Enable Trusted Content

Please refer to Development:Trusttext cleaning bypass for further information.

Maximum time to edit posts

This sets the editing time for forum postings. The editing time is the amount of time users have to change forum postings before they are mailed to subscribers.

Please refer to the forum discussions Editing a forum post after the 30 minutes deadline and The philosophy underlying "no editing after 30 minutes"

Blog visibility

To enable Blogs, select the level to which user blogs can be viewed.

By default, all site users can see all blogs. Blog visibility may be restricted so that users can only see blogs for people whom they share a course with or whom they share a group with.

Enable tags functionality

Moodle1.9

From Moodle 1.9 onwards, users may tag themselves and create interest pages around those tags.

Password policy

Moodle1.9

From Moodle 1.9 onwards, a password policy may be set up, ensuring users choose passwords of a certain length etc.

There is a check box to determine if password complexity should be enforced or not, the option to set the minimum length of the password, the minimum number of digits, the minimum number of lowercase characters, the minimum number of uppercase characters and the minimum number of non alphanumeric characters.

If a user enters a password that does not meet those requirements, they are given an error message indicating the nature of the problem with the entered password.

Enforcing password complexity along with requiring users to change their initial password go a long way in helping ensure that users choose and are in fact using "good passwords".

Disable user profile images

From Moodle 1.9 onwards, the ability for users to change their profile images may be disabled.

See also

• Administration FAQ