Site notifications

Location: Administration > Security > Notifications

Display login failures to

Set this to administrators to be warned of anyone attempting to steal student or teacher logins. When set, a link stating the number of failed logins appears in the top right corner of the page when an administrator logs in. Click the link to access the login error page.

The administrator is the administrator with the lowest id in the user-table (= the first created and still active administrator), all administrators are all users with the administrator role

Email login failures

Template:Moodle 2.0If you're concerned about login failures, you can set up email notification for administrators. In Moodle 2.0 onwards, you can enable email notification for any/all users who can change the site configuration.

Threshold for email notifications

This sets the number of failed logins for a given user from a single computer that will trigger notification.

See also

• Notification page at the top of the site administration block