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@@ -11,12 +11,21 @@ favorite web browser.
 
 ![](/images/Login.png)
 
-Have your login credentials ready.  (Again, your instructor should
-provide this information.)  If you have trouble
+Have your login credentials ready.  Again, your instructor or
+university should provide this information.  If you have trouble
 authenticating/accessing the page, double check the URL and your
 username and password, and contact the instructor, TA, or system
 administrator as appropriate.
 
+If your school allows for users to create their own accounts, your
+login page will include a button "New to Submitty? Sign up now!".
+
+![](/images/Login_self_account_creation.png)
+
+Click that button and follow the instructions to specify your email address,
+given name, family name, and choose your Submitty User ID and Password.
+
+
 
 ## My Courses
 
diff --git a/_docs/sysadmin/configuration/self_account_creation.md b/_docs/sysadmin/configuration/self_account_creation.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+---
+category: Student > Courses & Profile
+title: Self Account Creation
+---
+
+### Enable Self Account Creation
+
+There are two steps to enable self account creation, Firstly you have to manually edit the submitty.json configuration file. The default location for this
+file is `/usr/local/submitty/config/submitty.json`. By default, `self_account_creation_allowed` is set to `false`. To enable it, change this to `true`. Secondly,
+you have to be using DatabaseAuthentication. To change authentication types, either re-run CONFIGURE_SUBMITTY.py or edit /usr/local/submitty/config/authentication.json and change the authentication method to any of the methods. You should be able to leave all other settings to the default.
+ *Warning* This will disallow all users who are not in the database from being able to login, so this should only be used if you are only using database authentication. 
+
+### Email and User ID Requirements
+
+Below are the current accepted requirements for user_ids. 
+* If `all` is set to `true`, then `length` parameters are the only parameters checked. 
+
+* If `require_name` is true, then the user_id must start with and contain a certain amount of characters from the given name and/or family name. 
+
+* If the user does not have the character amount for the given part of the name, then !add fix!
+
+* `given_first` determines whether the given name or family name must come first. (e.g. Test User -> userte vs teuser)
+
+```json
+"user_id_requirements": {
+    "all": true,
+    "require_name": false,
+    "min_length": 6,
+    "max_length": 25,
+    "name_requirements": {
+      "given_first": false,
+      "given_name": 2,
+      "family_name": 4
+    },
+    "require_email": false,
+    "email_requirements": {
+      "whole_email": false,
+      "whole_prefix": false,
+      "prefix_count": 6
+    }
+}
+```
+
+```json
+"accepted_emails": {
+    "gmail.com": true,
+    "rpi.edu": true
+}
+```
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diff --git a/navtreedata.js b/navtreedata.js
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@@ -179,6 +179,7 @@ var NAVTREE =
                 [ "Course Creation", "/sysadmin/configuration/course_creation", null ],
                 [ "Ansible Course Creation", "/sysadmin/configuration/ansible_course_creation", null ],
                 [ "Setting up Version Control", "/sysadmin/configuration/version_control", null ],
+                [ "Self Account Creation", "/sysadmin/configuration/self_account_creation", null ],
                 [ "SAML Authentication", "/sysadmin/configuration/saml_authentication", null ],
                 [ "Email Configuration", "/sysadmin/configuration/email_configuration", null ],
                 [ "Registration Feed", "/sysadmin/configuration/registration_feed", null ],