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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

Moodle courses


Moodle manages activities and stores resources in courses, and this is where learning and collaboration takes place. Courses themselves belong to categories, which are organized hierarchically, similar to folders on our local hard drive. Moodle comes with a default category called Miscellaneous, which is sufficient to show the basics of courses. We deal with categories in more detail in the dedicated chapter, Chapter 4, Course Management.

Note

Moodle is a course-centric system.

To begin with, let us create the first course. To do so, go to Courses | Add/edit courses. Here, you will see the Miscellaneous category. Select the Add a new course button and you will be directed to the screen where course details have to be entered. For now, let us focus on the two compulsory fields, namely Course full name and Course short name. The former is displayed at various places in Moodle, whereas the latter is used to identify the course and is also shown in the breadcrumb trail.

We leave...