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Revision as of 23:26, 22 February 2026
Title of the script: Moodle 4.5 – Adding Users in Moodle
Author: Nancy Varkey
Keywords: moodle, moodle lms, lms, learning management system, educational lms, open-source lms, create users, user management, bulk user upload, edit user profiles, password policies, user verification
| Visual Cues | Narration |
| Slide: Title- Moodle 4.5 - Adding Users in Moodle | Welcome to this spoken tutorial on Moodle 4.5 - Adding Users in Moodle. |
| Slide: Learning Objectives | In this tutorial, we will learn:
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| Slide: Target Audience | This tutorial is for Site administrators who manage users in different courses. |
| Slide: System Requirements
This tutorial is recorded using:
You can use any OS or web browser of your choice. |
Recorded with Ubuntu, Moodle 4.5, and Firefox.
Use any OS or web browser of your choice. |
| Slide: Prerequisites
To follow this tutorial, ensure you have:
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Here are the prerequisites to learn this video. |
| Login as admin | We are logged in as the Admin user. |
| Screen: Site administration >> Users >> Add a new user | Let us begin with adding a new user.
Click on Site administration, Users, and Add a new user. |
| Click Expand All | Click on Expand All option. |
| Type nitya.jeevan | First type your username. |
| Point to Authentication Method >> Manual accounts
Click the dropdown to open it |
Authentication Method shows Manual accounts because we are adding this user manually.
Click the dropdown to view the other options. |
| Point to Generate password and notify user | Notice Generate password and notify user.
If checked, a system-generated password will be emailed to this user along with a notification. |
| New password >> Sample@123
Click the eye icon |
Type in a new password for this new user.
Follow standard password rules. Click the eye icon to read the typed password. |
| Select Force password change box | Selecting Force password change box is recommended.
It forces the user to change their password when he/she first logs in. |
| Screen: Add new user form
First name: Nitya, Last name: Jeevan, Email: nitya@example.com. |
Fill in the mandatory fields like First name, Last name, and Email id. |
| Screen: Moodle-specific settings
Scroll and show other Moodle-specific fields:
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Please avoid entering unnecessary personal information. |
| Click "Create user" | After filling in the required fields, click Create user. |
| Point to Nitya | The new user Nitya is seen in the user list. |
| Click on Filters >> select Contains >> type Nitya in First name field >> close Filters | To edit a user, we will use the filter options to search for Nitya. |
| Screen: Edit user profile >> Add city and country >> click on Update profile. | Next to her name, click the Actions menu and then on Edit.
Add or update any detail and click on Update profile. |
| Now let’s learn to upload users in bulk. | |
| Slide: CSV file with column-names
"Username, Password, First name, Last name, Email," "Role1". joy.david, Joy@123, Joy, David, joy@example.com, teacher mahima.singh, Mahima@123, Mahima, Singh, mahima@example.com, student |
Create a CSV file with column-names "Username, Password, First name, Last name, Email," and "Role1". |
| Screen: Upload users page | From the Users section, go to Upload users.
Select the CSV file and upload it. |
| Screen: Confirm upload results | Moodle will show a preview list of new users.
You can verify that Joy David and Mahima Singh are added. |
| Scroll down >> click on "Upload users" | Scroll down and click on Upload users. |
| Highlight on the screen | It says here - invalid password policy.
Which means, we have to give a better password. |
| username >> joy.david | Under username, click on joy.david |
| Click Edit profile >> change the password to David@123 >> Update profile. | Then click Edit profile.
Change the password to David@123 and Update profile. |
| Click on Users in the breadcrumbs. | |
| Point to Nitya, Joy, Mahima | Now we can see all the users we added manually and via bulk upload.
That’s how we add users in Moodle! |
Slide: Summary To summarise, we learnt:
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Here is the summary of this tutorial. |
| Slide: Assignment
As an assignment:
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We encourage you to try out this assignment. |
| Slide: Acknowledgement
Domain Expert: Nancy Varkey |
This tutorial is brought to you by EduPyramids, SINE, IIT Bombay.
Thank you for watching! |
