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===Can you arrange for an e-mail to be sent to notify Users of new accounts?===
===Can you arrange for an e-mail to be sent to notify Users of new accounts?===
Not at the moment.
If you are creating ONE manual account, then no.


See Feature request here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
See Feature request here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
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See discussion http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117005
See discussion http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117005


The discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=125000 suggests Moodle may send out e-mails under some circumstances with bulk upload of new users.
Bulk upload can be set up to send e-mails: see the discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333 (Which includes a code hack to do this as well.  (Also http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=125000)


[[Category:Authentication]]
[[Category:Authentication]]

Revision as of 07:57, 21 February 2011

This authentication method requires the administrator to manually create all user accounts. It may be used together with the upload users tool (Site admin > User > Accounts) which uses a text file.

Can you arrange for an e-mail to be sent to notify Users of new accounts?

If you are creating ONE manual account, then no.

See Feature request here: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390

See discussion http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117005

Bulk upload can be set up to send e-mails: see the discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=85333 (Which includes a code hack to do this as well. (Also http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=125000)