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Custom message on course login page?

Custom message on course login page?

by Lars Jensen -
Number of replies: 2
Hi everyone,

Is it possible for an instructor to put a custom message on the student login page to a particular course? In my case, I define the webwork usernames to be all lower case, but our ldap authentication allows any case, so students that enter upper case letters in their username sometimes complains that their password doesn't work. I can't use a site-wide message because other instructors may define their username differently.

Or is there some way to configure webwork to not care about case in usernames?

Thanks,
Lars.
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Re: Custom message on course login page?

by Alex Jordan -
Hi Lars,

You can put a file in your file manager's template folder called login_info.txt. It can be a plain text file giving your specific instructions for logging on. I'm not sure, but it probably allows for HTML too.

The contents of that file will be displayed on the login page.

Alex
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Re: Custom message on course login page?

by Dick Lane -
Both  course_info.txt  and  login_info.txt  can include HTML markup
(and  webwork/webwork2/htdocs/site_info.txt  can too).