If you have chosen to let your potential users sign up by themselves, you can add an extra validation step in the form of a CAPTCHA challenge-response test. This will increase your portal’s security, as it will prevent automated computer programs from creating fake accounts on your domain.

Here’s how: 

1. Sign in to your TalentLMS portal as an Administrator and go to Home > Account & Settings (1) > Users (2).
2. From the Sign up drop-down list, choose Direct (3). 
3. In the User verification (4) field, select CAPTCHA verification, CAPTCHA + Email verification, or CAPTCHA + Admin activation from the drop-down menu.
4. Click Save (5) to update your portal. 

The user verification drop-down menu offers the following options related to CAPTCHA:

• CAPTCHA verification: Ensures that users are humans and not computers by using stretched letters and numbers. As soon as this is passed, the user is able to log in to the portal.
• CAPTCHA + Email verification: When selecting this option, a CAPTCHA is added to the signup form, and any new account that’s created must verify their email address before they can access the portal. The relevant system notification that is sent to the user is “Account confirmation”.
• CAPTCHA + Admin Activation: With this option, a CAPTCHA is added to the signup form, and any new account is created with an inactive status. An administrator needs to activate the user’s account for them to access the portal. The relevant system notification that is sent to the Administrator is “Account activation”.