User Management Features

Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high security
Supports a range of user 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.
- For example, IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. SSL/TLS certificates are supported.
Students are encouraged to build an online Edit 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 (e.g. posting dates, assignment due dates etc)
- Every user can choose the language used for the Moodle interface (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc)

After a user has been authenticated by the site or allowed in as a guest, they areenrolled in courses.
Teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to only allow certain students to enter. 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)
There are many Enrolment_plugins
- Includes: LADP, IMS, Paypal, Moodle Network to name a few
- Any External database that has least two fields can be used as an external authentication source
- Flat file or CSV files can automatically authenticate and enroll students in specific courses
Each person requires only one account for the Moodle site - each account can have access to different courses, or resources and activities
Meta courses get their enrollment information from 1 or more other courses.

Roles combine specific permissions for specific types of participants. A user can beassigned a different role for each contexts, such as a specific course.
The administrator (admin) user account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by assigning users to courses and giving them a role in that context
New roles can be created, copied from existing roles and edited. Some standard roles include:
- Course creator can create courses, teach in them, and assign others to teacher roles.
- Teachers are a role in a specific course.
- Non-editing teacher roles are available for adjuncts, and part-time tutors.
- Students can participate and view activities but not create them
- Guests are view only users.

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