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Avoiding the spambots on your Moodle site with Google reCAPTCHA v2

By  Vinny Stocker

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Is your VLE open to the world? Do you let visitors create accounts on your site? If so you might get a lot of spam and unconfirmed accounts. Luckily there is a solution to this use Google reCAPTCHA on your site.

Adding Google reCAPTCHA to your Moodle site

You will have seen the boxes asking you to type in the text shown in images when you sign up for accounts on other sites, or the newer check box “I’m not a robot”.

At the end of this month (March 18) Google is phasing out the older version (v1) and replacing it with the newer version (v2). Unfortunately, if you use Google reCAPTCHA currently on your Moodle site and don’t update, it will stop working.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwslDn3ImM0

What does this mean for your Moodle site? Well, firstly you should already be using a reCAPTCHA, so you might be familiar with how to set it up – here’s a link to the Moodle docs – if not, get one set up on your Moodle site now!

You can get your Public and Private keys from here https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/ .

And the fix….

Developers have been working hard to write the Moodle code to work with the new version reCAPTCHA v2, you can follow along here https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-48501 . Once development is finished, it will be rolled out in one of the regular updates from Moodle HQ and will be available for Moodle 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.5. so you will need to update your Moodle site. Even better news is that v1 keys will work with v2 – so nothing to change on the Google side.

As always, if you are a client of ours, we will handle the update for you.

Vinny Stocker


Vinny is an experienced educator and technologist with over 25 years of leadership experience in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education. He is the Managing Director of Pukunui Sdn Bhd, a leading Learning Management Systems provider in Malaysia, where he has successfully implemented e-learning systems for some of the largest universities in the country. He is also a recognised expert in the field of Moodle, having trained hundreds of teachers on various versions of the software and regularly presenting at educational conferences in South East Asia. Vinny is known for his progressive and driven approach, as well as his ability to provide practical and effective solutions that promote student progress and learning. He is an accomplished entrepreneur, published author, and a down-to-earth and approachable individual dedicated to improving education through innovative integration of ICT.

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