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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

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Moodle 1.9 E-Learning Course Development

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Moodle 1.9
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
10
Extending and Administering Moodle
Index

Customizing the Login Page


Moodle's Login Page displays directions for creating a new user account in the right column:

The contents of this page will change based upon the authentication methods that you enable. For example, notice that the directions on the page displayed above tell the user how to register for an account. These directions appear if email-based self registration is enabled. If that method is turned off, then these directions would be replaced with something else.

Moodle 1.9 enables you to customize the directions that appear in the Login Page. You can customize this under Site Administration | Users | Authentication | Instructions.

In Chapter 3, during the configuration, you learned that Moodle stores almost all its text messages in language files. Each language has a separate directory, such as \moodle\lang\en for British English, and \moodle\lang\es for Spanish (Español). In the previous screenshot, the user has selected the language as U.S. English, so Moodle will use...