From the course: Moodle Administration Essential Training

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Configuring notifications

Configuring notifications

- To close out the chapter, let's look at what options you have for security notifications in Moodle. As an administrator, you want to be in the know of what's going on. Under the Notifications page, under the subsection of Security, there are a few brief options that'll help you be aware. Display login failures simply toggles the ability for failed login attempts to be displayed. Just a heads up about this setting, not all theme authors allows failed login messages to be displayed up at the top. If you're gonna try testing it, I'd recommend trying it on a default Moodle theme, like the Clean theme that we had started out with at the beginning of the course. In addition to that, you might want to go over to the Language subsection, and then over to the Language packs page, and remove the French language pack. Otherwise, your messages might come up in French. This next setting is a straightforward one. You can select certain users and have them be directly notified of failed login…

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