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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
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned what web services are and how they can be utilized from within Moodle. We covered the two main administrative tasks, namely setting up web services for external applications and enabling web services for users. We also talked through the enabling process of the Moodle mobile web service.

Keep an eye on the roadmap for web services as some great new features are in the pipeline (docs.moodle.org/dev/Web_services_Roadmap), for example, web services for offline grading will be added soon.

In the chapter to follow we will cover another option for Moodle to communicate with other systems, namely via Moodle networking.