Change user password on initial login without the Change My Password permission
If your Brightspace instance authenticates some users externally using SSO or LDAP, D2L recommends not requiring those users to change their password on their initial login to Brightspace as that can result in multiple passwords for those users. However, you may want to have a different password reset policy for any users that Brightspace authenticates directly. You can require those users to change their password on the initial login, or manually request that they change their login passwords, and then change their role permissions to prevent future password changes.
Use either of the following solutions to request that users that Brightspace authenticates directly reset their passwords on first login to Brightspace:
Email password reset requests to users that Brightspace authenticates directly
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Users.
- On the Users page, select one or more users that Brightspace authenticates directly.
- From the Reset Password drop-down list, select Email Password Reset Link.
- The user receives an email containing a password reset request and is able to reset the password the first time the user clicks the reset link.
Change user role permissions after manually requesting a password change on first login
- From the Admin Tools menu, click Users.
- Click a user.
- Click the Enrollments tab.
- In the Search For field, type the course you want to enroll the user in or click
Search to see all the possible courses.
- Click the Select a new role icon beside the org unit you want to enroll the user in and select a role that has the Change My Password permission.
- Select the user's role from the drop-down list and click Apply.
- Send an email notification instructing the user to change the password on first login.
- After the user changes the password, from the Admin Tools menu, click Users and select the user.
- Click Enroll.
- On the Change Enrollments page, click the New Role drop-down list and select a role that does not have the Change My Password permission.