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This may be done on an individual basis in ''Administration>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>[[Add_a_new_user| Add a new user'']]
This may be done on an individual basis in ''Administration>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>[[Add_a_new_user| Add a new user'']]


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==Adding users in bulk==
==Adding users in bulk==
This may be done via a text file upload in ''Administration>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>[[Upload_users| Upload users'']]
This may be done via a text file upload in ''Administration>Site Administration>Users>Accounts>[[Upload_users| Upload users'']]
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Latest revision as of 20:11, 7 May 2022


  • Location: Administration>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.

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Password expiry settings

An administrator can specify an expiry time for passwords and when to notify users of the imminent expiry by enabling the setting in Site administration>Plugins>Authentication>Manual accounts.

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Locking user fields

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

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Adding a new user

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

How to add a new user

Adding users in bulk

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

How to bulk upload users