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From: "David Leeming" <<a href="mailto:david@leeming-consulting.com">david@leeming-consulting.com</a>><br>
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so what happens if the administrator laptop is lost or stolen, how can you<br>
create a new administrator? This is important for our deployment plan<br>
logistics; i.e. can we set things up centrally or do it locally, where the<br>
laptops are delivered directly (i.e. we don't have access centrally to the<br>
laptops which will be "administrators"<br>
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David Leeming<br><br></blockquote><div>Hi David<br><br>This is what you do if you lose the "admin" account (note that the first user is actually a course creator NOT an administrator in Moodle terms). <br><br>Follow these instructions on how to log in with the (REAL) admin account - <br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Logging_in_with_the_admin_account">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Logging_in_with_the_admin_account</a> <br><br>Then - <br>Log in to Moodle as admin. Go to admin block: Users - Permissions - Assign System roles<br>
Click on Course creator, potential users appear on the right, highlight the appropriate name and press add to shift them to the left. <br><br>No user will exist if you don't have the laptops registered to the school server. If you decide to create a user, go to admin block - users - accounts - add new user, you have to set a password for the account. That would then need to be given to the user at the site who will be this course creator person. Kind of painful if you have to do that as they will have two logins - the XO and this one. <br>
<br>Martin may have a way to reset that "first laptop becomes course creator" thing prior to shipment.<br><br>Tabitha<br></div></div>