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Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". People can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen. (This button can be enabled or disabled by the administrator.)
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==The guest account==


For a given course, the teacher can choose whether or not to allow guests in.
Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". Visitors can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen and enter any courses which allow guest access. In addition, logged-in users can enter any courses which allow guest access without being required to enrol.


Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.
Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.


They '''cannot''':
They ''cannot'':


* Post discussion messages
* Post in [[Forum module|forums]]
* Edit [[wiki]] pages
* Edit [[Wiki module|wiki]] pages
* Take quizzes
* Participate in a [[Chat module|chat]]
* Submit assignments
* Take [[Quiz|quizzes]] or [[Questionnaire]] (or [[Feedback]])
* Contribute glossary entries or comments
* Submit [[Assignment|assignments]]
* View [[SCORM]] content (because progress is tracked)
* Add [[Glossary|glossary]] or [[Database activity module|database activity]] entries or comments
* Receive any scores or grades (because of the read-only access)


This feature can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.
This feature can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.


Note that you have a choice between two types of guest access: with the enrolment key or without. If you choose to allow guests who have the key, then the guest will need to provide the current enrolment key EVERY TIME they log in (unlike students who only need to do it once). This lets you restrict your guests. If you choose to allow guests without a key, then anyone can get straight into your course.
If you want guests to be able to take quizzes, or any of the other activities listed above, and have considered the security implications, you can create a visitor account, say with username = password = visitor, for everyone to share.


==Self-enrolment==
==Enabling guest access==
To allow guests into courses on your Moodle, see [[Guest_access|Guest access]].


Sometimes you may wish to allow people to have a more interactive engagement with a course without you having to enrol them in advance. In this case you can enable "self-enrolment" for your course. This allows anyone with a user account on your Moodle server to become a student on your course. As with guest access, you can use the '''enrolment key''' to limit this only to people to whom you have given the key.
==Skip login page for guest account==


[[Category:Administrator]]
All users will be automatically logged in as guests if you enable ''Auto-login guests'' in ''Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > User policies''. The standard login page is displayed after users visit page that requires real user login.
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==See also==
 
Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=69674 Allowing guests to post in forum?]
 
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Latest revision as of 23:03, 30 January 2014

The guest account

Moodle has a built-in "Guest account". Visitors can log in as guests using the "Login as a guest" button on the login screen and enter any courses which allow guest access. In addition, logged-in users can enter any courses which allow guest access without being required to enrol.

Guests ALWAYS have "read-only" access - meaning they can't leave any posts or otherwise mess up the course for real students.

They cannot:

This feature can be handy when you want to let a colleague in to look around at your work, or to let students see a course before they have decided to enrol.

If you want guests to be able to take quizzes, or any of the other activities listed above, and have considered the security implications, you can create a visitor account, say with username = password = visitor, for everyone to share.

Enabling guest access

To allow guests into courses on your Moodle, see Guest access.

Skip login page for guest account

All users will be automatically logged in as guests if you enable Auto-login guests in Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > User policies. The standard login page is displayed after users visit page that requires real user login.

See also

Using Moodle forum discussions:

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