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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?)

The first step in creating a special case account is to sign up for a UCLA Logon ID

Steps to create a UCLA Logon ID:

  1. Point your browser to http://ccle.ucla.edu.
  2. Choose logon in the far upper-right of the screen.
  3. Click the UCLA logon button
  4. A new window appears with three boxes on the right titled: Sign In, Useful Links and Help for…
  5. In the Useful Links box, select Sign up for a UCLA Logon ID
  6. Once the user has the logon, the user needs to log into ccle.ucla.edu once as this will make an entry into the Assign Roles, “Potential users”, list
  7. Then, someone with rights can follow the steps in the link below
  1. To also add this new account to an existing Moodle site, see In Moodle how do I add participants to a site?