Managing Moodle User Accounts

  • Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high security
  • Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication modules, allowing easy integration with existing systems.
  • Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email addresses are verified by confirmation.
  • LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin can specify which fields to use.
  • IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. SSL, certificates and TLS are supported.
  • External database: any database containing at least two fields can be used as an external authentication source.
  • Each person requires only one account for the whole server - each account can have different access
  • An admin account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by assigning users to courses
  • A course creator account is only allowed to create courses and teach in them
  • Teachers may have editing privileges removed so that they can't modify the course (eg for part-time tutors)
  • Security - teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to keep out non-students. They can give out this key face-to-face or via personal email etc
  • Teachers can enrol students manually if desired
  • Teachers can unenrol students manually if desired, otherwise they are automatically unenrolled after a certain period of inactivity (set by the admin)
  • Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos, description. Email addresses can be protected from display if required.
  • Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in Moodle is translated to that timezone (eg posting dates, assignment due dates etc)
  • Every user can choose the language used for the Moodle interface (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc)
  • Teachers can also "force" a particular language for a particular course
Viimati muudetud: laupäev, 2. juuni 2012, 16.08 PM