Moodle/C2/Adding-Users-in-Moodle/English

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

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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: How to add and edit a user How to upload users in bulk
Slide: Target Audience	This tutorial is for Site administrators who manage users in different courses.
Slide: System Requirements This tutorial is recorded using: Ubuntu Linux OS version 22.04 Moodle version 4.5 Firefox browser 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: Moodle 4.5 installed and Admin access to your Moodle site	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: Authentication method Suspended user Email display options.	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: How to add and edit users How to bulk upload users	Here is the summary of this tutorial.
Slide: Assignment As an assignment: Add a new user "Amina Hasan". Review the user list to confirm.	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!

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