How to create a special case (local) login in Moodle

Special case (local) accounts must be created for those users who need access to a private Moodle site and don’t have a UCLA Common Logon ID. (Cf. How do I know if I have a UCLA Common Logon ID?)

If you don’t have site-wide admin privileges to the CCLE Moodle site, please email your request for a special-case login to cclehelp@ucla.edu. Include the full name and preferred email address of the person of the person for whom the account will be created.

Steps to create a special case account:

1. Log in as administrator to the Moodle system.
2. Site Administration
3. Users
4. Accounts
5. Add a new user
6. In the “Edit profile screen:”
7. Username: assign the username. Make it different from what an eventual UCLA Common Logon ID would be!
8. Choose an authentication method: Must be “Manual accounts only”
9. New password: assign a password
10. Enter a First Name, Surname and Email address.
11. Email activated: Make sure it’s “This email address is enabled”.
12. The rest of the settings are optional, and the user can modify them later if need be.
13. Click “Update profile” to save the new account.
14. Email the new account info to the user who needs it and ask him/her to log in and verify that s/he can log in.
15. To also add this new account to an existing Moodle site, see In Moodle how do I add participants to a site?