Friday, November 22, 2024

show the rules for creating username on Moodle - email based signup

There was a request for a method to show the rules for creating usernames (shouldn't have spaces, should be only lowercase) for new users registering on Moodle. 

While a help message is provided for the password, similar information is not provided for username...


My reply was:

https://our.moodle.server/admin/settings.php?section=manageauths
There is an "instructions" field available at the above link, which you can use to provide instructions to the people logging in. Maybe that might help you.

(Another option is to remove the option for users to enter Username, and instead only use Email address as username. But I'm not sure how to do that.)  

With this "instructions" field the problem seems to be mitigated - these instructions are shown on the login screen itself.

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