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Moodle 2 Administration

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Moodle 2 Administration

Overview of this book

Moodle has evolved from an academic project to the world's most popular virtual learning environment. During this evolution, its complexity has risen dramatically and so have the skills that are required to administer the system.Moodle 2 Administration is a complete, practical guide to administering Moodle sites. It covers how to set up Moodle in any learning environment, configuration and day-to-day admin tasks, as well as advanced options for customizing and extending Moodle.The author, who has been administering systems for over 20 years, has adopted a problem-solution approach to bring the content in line with your day-to-day operations. The practical examples will help you to set up Moodle for large groups and small courses alike. This is a one-stop reference for any task you will ever come across when administering a Moodle site of any shape and size.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Moodle 2 Administration
Credits
About the Author
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Preface

Course-level backup and restore


We will first have a look at the backup procedure before going into detail of how to recover data during the restore operation.

Course backup

To back up a course it is best if you are inside that course, where you will have to click on the Backup link in the Course administration section. Alternatively, you can back up courses from within course categories. Go to Courses | Add/edit courses in the Site administration section and click on the category in which the course to be backed up resides. Click on the Backup icon (by default, a yellow box), which directs you to the same screen as using the Backup link inside a course.

The backup procedure comprises of a number of steps, which are described in the following sections. You can navigate backwards to any step via the process links at the top of the screen or by using the navigation buttons at the bottom.

Initial settings

There are a number of settings (as shown in the following screenshot), which dictate how...