Login settings
To assist administrators manage their login preferences for their organisation, from Moodle LMS 5.2 several related configurations have been collated in one administration page, making them easier to find and update.
This new page can be found at: Accessed from Site administration > General > Login > Login settings.
For new sites this page is where you can change the default settings. For existing sites that have upgraded, any existing modifications you have made will remain unchanged, and you can modify them on this page.
Moodle LMS 5.2 introduces a new modern login page, with a default welcome message and a default image. These can be customised to meet your organisations needs, please see the following sections.
Note: If you have an existing site with custom login instructions or a custom login page image, these will persist after upgrading and won't be overwritten.
Login page message and instructions
To set or update the login page message or provide custom login instructions to your users, navigate to the Login settings page: Site administration > General > Login > Login settings.
From the Login settings page, type your own text in the Instructions field.
Note that this message only applies to authentication methods, such as Manual and Self-registration, that use the login page.
Multiple languages
Custom instructions in more than one language may be provided as follows:
- Go to Site administration > Language > Language customisation
- Select a language then click the button 'Open language pack for editing' then click continue
- Select moodle.php and enter loginsteps as string identifier then click 'Show strings'
- Enter your custom login instructions in the local customisation text box
- Click the button 'Save changes to the language pack' then click continue
- Repeat the steps for other languages
Login page image
How login page image is displayed is based on the currently selected theme for your site. For the Boost theme the login page image can be updated from the theme settings.
Do this from Site administration > Appearance > Themes > Boost; click the cog and upload a new image for the Login background.
