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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

Assigning roles


As mentioned before, assigning roles to users is done for, and in, a particular context. The process of the actual role assignment (except for courses) is similar for each context. What is different is the location of each context and the method of its access. The process of assigning roles to users is described first, before outlining how and where to assign them in individual contexts:

  1. 1. Navigate to any Assign roles screen for the required context, for example, Front page | Front page roles (I will explain how to find the Assign roles screen for each context later). You will see a screen as follows:

    • In this preceding screenshot, you can see that there are currently two Teachers assigned (Matthew Bates and Mary Fawcett) and 18 Students (only up to 10 names are displayed).

  2. 2. Select the role to which you wish to assign a user by clicking on the role name or, if there are more than 10 assignees, click on the More than 10 link. For example, if you wish to allocate more Student...