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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

User profiles


Other than guest users, each user has a profile that contains information about him or her. We will first deal with the information that is stored for each user and how it is organized in Moodle.

You can view or change your own profile by clicking on your name, which is usually found in the header or footer of your system. Click on the Edit profile link in the Settings block to view the most commonly used fields. To modify the profiles of other users, click on the Edit link besides their name in Users | Accounts | Browse list of users.

Profile fields

Moodle user profiles are divided into a number of categories, of which the first four cannot be changed via the Moodle user interface:

  • General: Standard user fields

  • User picture: Image of the user

  • Interests: Tags for social networking activities

  • Optional: Additional user information

  • User-defined: Newly created fields

General category

The following screenshot shows the profile fields of the General category:

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