I can not untick "Force users to log in" (forcelogin). It says "Defined in config.php". See attachment. I didn't find any reference in https://support.moodle.com/hc/en-us/categories/115000822727-MoodleCloud/.
I wonder how Mary made https://mary.moodlecloud.com/course/view.php?id=32, which gives access to any visitor with no hassle, accepting "Log in as guest" for example. Details https://tracker.moodle.org/projects/MDL/issues/MDL-63154.
Try not unticking it. Mine is still ticked.
My understanding is that, if I want to open a course for a visitor (no login), I need to untick "forcelogin", otherwise Moodle will ask for a login.
Do you say in your site https://mary.moodlecloud.com you have forcelogin ticked? Still the course https://mary.moodlecloud.com/course/view.php?id=32 open for visitors? I don't understand something around the guest login story.
Do you say in your site https://mary.moodlecloud.com you have forcelogin ticked? Still the course https://mary.moodlecloud.com/course/view.php?id=32 open for visitors? I don't understand something around the guest login story.
Here: (and I confess, I don't understand it either. Hopefully one of the MoodleCloud team can explain. Of course, with guest access you can't actually participate in anything, but for sure you can see content.)
Still you have a course which is truly open for guests! I really don't understand something.
Still this is useful for solving my current problem 'How to get rid of the klick on "Guest login" for visitors?' https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=374625.
Still this is useful for solving my current problem 'How to get rid of the klick on "Guest login" for visitors?' https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=374625.
Hi Visvanath and Mary,
I think you are looking for autologinguests under Admin -> User policies.
Mathieu
Hello Mathieu (and anyone who comes to this thread subsequently) This discussion is a follow up from the forum thread mentioned by Visvanath above where he asks how to have his guest access courses available immediately without the need to click on the log in as guest button.
I suggested he use "autologinguests" and showed my MoodleCloud site as an example. This then prompted us to discuss here the strange fact that, if your site has forcelogin - yes, as all the MoodleCloud sites do, then you would expect not to be able to do this, but in fact, the autologinguests setting means you can have guest access on a site where you are not allowed to see the front page before logging in.
I looked in the tracker and found several very old issues about this: for example MDL-35359 and MDL-10850 which seem to suggest that this is the expected behaviour: Sites with forcelogin can indeed still have autologinguests. (I am about to edit the documentation to clarify this)
Hi,
I am facing the same issue as listed earlier in some of the posts. Somehow, I am unable to untick the forcelogin checkbox. Each time I untick it and save the changes, it reverts back to 'ON'.
It says Defined in config.php. Can you please advice how to go about it.
In reply to Priyanka Rastogi
Re: No guest access on MoodleCloud (free version)?
by Mathieu Petit-Clair -
Hi Priyanka,
As discussed above, this option is not available on the free version of MoodleCloud, mostly as a way to prevent abuse. You can use autologinguests to achieve a somewhat similar result.
Mathieu
In reply to Mathieu Petit-Clair
Re: No guest access on MoodleCloud (free version)?
by Hristian Daskalov -
I can confirm the function works well under a paid plan.