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For people to enter your courses, they first need an account on your Moodle site. The two most common ways are: | For people to enter your courses, they first need an account on your Moodle site. The two most common ways are: |
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Add users to the site
For people to enter your courses, they first need an account on your Moodle site. The two most common ways are:
- Enable sign up so they can create their own accounts on the site
- Create a user account for them yourself, manually.
Enable sign up
- Log in with your administrator account
- From the left panel (the Navigation drawer) click Site administration
- Click the Plugins" tab and scroll down to Authentication
- Click Manage authentication
- Click to open the 'eye' icon of Email-based self registration:
6. Scroll down and from the 'Self registration' dropdown section, select Email-based self-registration:
7. Scroll down and click the button Save changes
Create a user
- Log in with your administrator account
- From the left panel (the Navigation drawer) click Site administration
- Click the Users tab
- Click Add a new user
- Add your user details, using the icon for extra help
- If you want their new account details emailed to them, click 'Generate password and notify user'
- Click Create user
Add users to the course
Once they have accounts, you must give then them access to the course. The two most common ways are:
- Enable course sign up so they can enrol themselves
- Add teachers and students to the course yourself manually.
Enable course sign up
- Log in with your administrator account or a teacher account
- Go to the course you want to allow users to access
- From the left panel (Navigation drawer) click Participants
- Click the cog icon on the right (above Enrol users) and select Enrolment methods
- Click to open the eye of Self enrolment (Student)
Add teachers and students
- Log in with your administrator account.
- Go to the course where you want to add teachers and students.
- From the left panel (Navigation drawer) click Participants
- Click Enrol users
- From the dropdowns, select the users you want and the role you want to give them:
6. Click Enrol users.