What is an authentication?

Authentication is the process of allowing a user to login to a Moodle site based on their username and password.

Authentication Plugins

Moodle provides a number of ways of managing authentication, called authentication plugins.

• Manual accounts - accounts created manually by an administrator
• No login- suspend particular user account
• Email-based self-registration- for enabling users to create their own accounts
• External database- account details are located on an external database
• Moodle Network authentication- how different Moodle sites can connect and authenticate users
• No authentication- or testing purposes or if the Moodle site is not available on the Internet