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Manual accounts

  • 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''

Video link: 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''

Video link: How to bulk upload users

Display manual login form​

If you hide the manual login form in Site administration > Plugins > Manage authentication then find that you can no longer log in, you can display it again using the command line

php admin/cli/cfg.php --name=showloginform --set=1