You can use these settings to turn registration off after an initial enrolment period. If you are allowing students to create their own accounts, you can enable account creation with no administrator approval required, and/or no email verification. Then, once the initial enrolment period has ended, you can change this setting to only allow new users to be added by the site administrator.

Additionally, you can use these settings to enter specific guidelines to present to users upon registering.

The settings in this section allow you to customize the various notification emails that are sent out when users register for the site, forget their password, and so on. Customizing these emails help to create a more personal feel to your course, as the original email text is fairly bland. The full range of emails is shown in the following screenshot:

Often, in community sites, users can create a customized signature (similar to as they can in many email programs) that will automatically be added to the end of the any comments they post. Enabling signatures will allow your students to add signatures to their comments.

Within the site, students can be allowed to upload small pictures, or avatars. This feature can be allowed or disallowed from the User settings page.