Moodle 2.0

Chapter 3
Field
Username
Choose an
authentication
method
New password
Force password
change
First name and
Surname
Email address
Email display
Email activated
Email format
Email digest
type
Forum
auto-subscribe
and Forum
tracking
When editing
text
Notes
For the username, you might find it easiest to use the role that you are
testing. So create usernames like teacher1, teacher2, student1,...student4,
and so on.
For your test accounts, this should be set to Manual accounts.
Refere to your institution's password policy. To ensure that you type the
password correctly, click on the Unmask checkbox. This enables you to
see the password as you type it.
For your test accounts, leave this blank.
By default, when Moodle lists users, it sorts them by name. Often, it is
convenient to have your test accounts appear next to each other in the list
of users. Also, if they are at the top of the list, then you don't need to scroll
or search to find them. For your test users, consider using a last name like
AATest, which will put them at the top of the list with just
one click.
The e-mail address of each user in Moodle must be unique. So if you are
creating six test accounts, you will need six different e-mail addresses.
At some institutions, the IT department won't give you multiple e-mail
addresses. In that case, ask them for multiple aliases that you can use for
your e-mail address.
Do you want other users on your site to see the e-mail address for this
test account? For a test account, set this to Hide my email address from
everyone, unless you have a good reason for your students to know the
e-mail address of your test accounts. Also, you don't want a real student to
get confused and e-mail a test Teacher account, instead of their real teacher.
You want your test account to receive e-mail while you are developing
courses, so set this to This email address is enabled.
To test how your site sends e-mail, you can set your odd numbered users
to Pretty HTML format and your even numbered users to Plain text
format.
When a user is subscribed to a forum, Moodle usually sends that user
e-mails about new forum postings. This setting determines how often those
e-mails are sent, and what they contain. For testing, leave this to No digest.
That way, you'll know within a few minutes if a forum is sending out
messages the way it should. If your test user starts getting a lot of messages
from a forum, you might want to set this to a daily e-mail.
For testing, you can leave these settings to Yes. If your test user starts
getting a lot of messages from a lot of forums, you might want to set one
or both of these to No, and then unsubscribe the test user from those
forums.
To test the behavior of Moodle's HTML editor, you can leave this to Use
HTML editor.
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