Yes, ideally one would just tell the students, Here is your user name and your password.
That would be enough info to authenticate against an external database, right? Or am I wrong about that?
-- Art
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Be gentle with me fellow Moodlers...
I have been thinking about authentication, and am wondering how difficult it would be to create a feature that would enable a site admin to create hundreds of accounts by clicking a button or two.
The admin would simply be creating username and password combinations in the database, I guess.
Teachers could then assign these accounts to students: no muss, no fuss.
Is that a very dumb idea?
-- Art
I have been thinking about authentication, and am wondering how difficult it would be to create a feature that would enable a site admin to create hundreds of accounts by clicking a button or two.
The admin would simply be creating username and password combinations in the database, I guess.
Teachers could then assign these accounts to students: no muss, no fuss.
Is that a very dumb idea?
-- Art
Just teasing my fellow Moodlers, Ulrike. 
While the course does have some of the stuff in it that has been described in this thread as awful, I think the course is fine for my students.
There is an old expression saying that you bait the hook to suit the fish, and that is what I have done.
-- Art
While the course does have some of the stuff in it that has been described in this thread as awful, I think the course is fine for my students.
There is an old expression saying that you bait the hook to suit the fish, and that is what I have done.
-- Art
Hi, John,
You can get the code for customized Skype buttons from http://www.skype.com/share/buttons/. Very cool, but none of my students has taken advantage of this yet.
The advertisement was a very vague sort of thing: Compose a one-page advertisement in MS Word "selling" yourself to your prosepective host family as though you were a product like laundry detergent or toothpaste. No template, though. Sorry!
-- Art
You can get the code for customized Skype buttons from http://www.skype.com/share/buttons/. Very cool, but none of my students has taken advantage of this yet.
The advertisement was a very vague sort of thing: Compose a one-page advertisement in MS Word "selling" yourself to your prosepective host family as though you were a product like laundry detergent or toothpaste. No template, though. Sorry!
-- Art
Hmmmm... Actually, in discussing the ugly, terrible, awful course of shame you guys want to design, you have pretty well described one of my current courses!
I guess all my taste is in my mouth.
-- Art
I guess all my taste is in my mouth.
-- Art
