What is authentication?

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

Moodle provides a number of ways of managing authentication, called authentication plugins. Below are some popularly used authentication methods:

• Manual accounts - accounts created manually by an administrator

• No login- suspend particular user account

• Email-based self-registration- enables a user to authenticate themselves using their email address

• External database- account details are located on an external database

• Moodle Network authentication- different Moodle sites can connect and authenticate users

• No authentication- for testing purposes or if the Moodle site is not available on the Internet