Manual accounts: Difference between revisions

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Location: Settings>Site Administration>Plugins>Authentication>Manage authentication.
Manual authentication is enabled by default in Moodle and requires the administrator to manually create all the user accounts.

The settings page in Settings>Site Administration>Plugins>Authentication>Manual accounts allows for certain fields to be "locked". Users are not allowed to change the locked fields.

This may be done on an individual basis in Settings>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>Add a new user

This may be done via a text file upload in Settings>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>Upload users

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 ==Adding a new user==
- This may be done on an individual basis in ''Settings>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>Add a new user'' or via a text file upload in ''Settings>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>Upload users''
+This may be done on an individual basis in ''Settings>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>Add a new user''
 ==Adding users in bulk==
+This may be done via a text file upload in ''Settings>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>Upload users''
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-===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)
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