Moodle does not appear to send a welcome e-mail to new users when you use the 'Add New User' option as an administrator. This seems crazy behaviour as I have to copy the allocated username and password into another e-mail for each user I add.
Is there anyway I can enable this functionality or am I missing something in the way I'm managing users?
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Re: Adding New Users Manually ( as admin)
Napisane przez: Colin Matheson ()
You are having the same issue as http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117005
I have searched and can't find an answer. I will submit a feature request and see if anyone can think of how to create this feature.
You can create an account with tracker, login, and vote for the feature
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
I have searched and can't find an answer. I will submit a feature request and see if anyone can think of how to create this feature.
You can create an account with tracker, login, and vote for the feature
http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-19390
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Re: Adding New Users Manually ( as admin)
Napisane przez: John Curran ()
Colin,
Thanks for your response. Can't believe this functionality is not included - appears to be in every other LMS that I currently use (but then Moodle is so weird in many ways...
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I have voted on the new feature using the Tracker...
John
Thanks for your response. Can't believe this functionality is not included - appears to be in every other LMS that I currently use (but then Moodle is so weird in many ways...
I have voted on the new feature using the Tracker...
John
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Re: Adding New Users Manually ( as admin)
Napisane przez: Colin Matheson ()
I have found that if you create users by csv file upload it will send them a welcome email with password.
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Re: Adding New Users Manually ( as admin)
Napisane przez: Salvador Rocha ()
Hi I've just read your post and can't find any option to make Moodle send a welcome email even with upload file option, by the way thats exactly what i need to do, please tell me how you acomplish thesse.
Thanks
Thanks
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Re: Adding New Users Manually ( as admin)
Napisane przez: Chris Collman ()
Hi,
Tests sometime are a good thing. Did you try to bulk upload one user in a csv file, making sure that emails were enabled for the batch? I think there is a setting as part of the upload process, not in the CSV file.
I am wondering if it just automatically sends out (without a yes/no setting) the email or tries to send out an email (and does not notify you of a failure). As I recall there are some site settings for sending emails which might prevent that possible automatic function from happening with a batch upload.
Good posts and useful for me, Chris
Tests sometime are a good thing. Did you try to bulk upload one user in a csv file, making sure that emails were enabled for the batch? I think there is a setting as part of the upload process, not in the CSV file.
I am wondering if it just automatically sends out (without a yes/no setting) the email or tries to send out an email (and does not notify you of a failure). As I recall there are some site settings for sending emails which might prevent that possible automatic function from happening with a batch upload.
Good posts and useful for me, Chris
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Re: Adding New Users Manually ( as admin)
Napisane przez: Colin Matheson ()
I don't see any settings for turning it on or off. In fact I think it is the default to send welcome emails to the new users uploaded by csv.
Perhaps this is only the case if Moodle auto generates passwords. The system doesn't tell you it sent emails, however it does. I was creating test accounts and foolishly used real email accounts for my users. They all got an email saying an account had been created (this included their username and randomly generated password.
I agree with Chris. Upload a single account to create a user that has one of your secondary email accounts (different from your admin email). See if you get an email. Let us know if you have success.
Perhaps this is only the case if Moodle auto generates passwords. The system doesn't tell you it sent emails, however it does. I was creating test accounts and foolishly used real email accounts for my users. They all got an email saying an account had been created (this included their username and randomly generated password.
I agree with Chris. Upload a single account to create a user that has one of your secondary email accounts (different from your admin email). See if you get an email. Let us know if you have success.