Setup Login as an admin. Go to "Site administration / Plugins / Authentication / Manage authentication" and enable Shibboleth. Edit Shibboleth settings and update hte " Login instructions " (auth_instructions) setting to something like <h4 class="p-1 bg-success">LOGIN INSTRUCTIONS HERE!</h4> Important:  we aren’t testing a Shibboleth connection. We are testing if index_form.html shows shibboleth/auth_instructions Case 1 Login as an admin. Go to "Site administration / Plugins / Authentication / Manage authentication"   and enable Email-based self-registration method. Also, enable " Self registration " and select " Email-based self-registration " option. Open a new browser window (e.g. incognito) On the other browser window, go to " /auth/shibboleth/login.php " of your Moodle site. Confirm that you can see the login instructions text " LOGIN INSTRUCTIONS HERE! " (highlighted in green) in between the " Is your first time here? " header and the " Create new account " button Case 2 Back to the first window (admin view), disable the " Email-based registration " authentication plugin Refresh the second browser window Confirm that you can see the login instructions text " LOGIN INSTRUCTIONS HERE! " (highlighted in green) below the " Is your first time here? " header Case 3 You need a new option on the Self registration selector. To do that, you need to edit config.php and add this value: $CFG->registerauth = 'shibboleth'; Refresh the second window Expected result: Check you can see below Is your first time here? the text you have added before in auth_instructions.