Ive forgotten or don know what my moodle password is, how can I get it reset?
If you are very new to the School of Computer Science your password might never have been changed from that it was initially assigned with. Typically all new accounts are set up so that the initial password is your date of birth in the format YYYYMMDD, for example if you are born on 2nd September 1974, you would enter “19740902”. It is strongly recommended that you change your initial password to something more secure. Passwords are not directly handled inside moodle. Instead passwords are checked via querying the Schools mail IMAP server, which in turn uses your UNIX username and password. This essentially means that you/moodle admins cannot get your password reset from within moodle, but must instead ask a School UNIX system administrator to do this for you. To get your password reset, in the first instance ask someone in the Resource Centre on the lower floor to do this. If they are busy or unable to do this for you, contact dutyoffice@cs.man.ac.uk letting them know your full name a
