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Moodle 3 Administration - Third Edition

By : Alex Büchner
Book Image

Moodle 3 Administration - Third Edition

By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

Moodle is the de facto standard for open source learning platforms. However, setting up and managing a learning environment can be a complex task since it covers a wide range of technical, organizational, and pedagogical topics. This ranges from basic user and course management, to configuring plugins and design elements, all the way to system settings, performance optimization, events frameworks, and so on. This book concentrates on basic tasks such as how to set up and configure Moodle and how to perform day-to-day administration activities, and progresses on to more advanced topics that show you how to customize and extend Moodle, manage courses, cohorts, and users, and how to work with roles and capabilities. You’ll learn to configure Moodle plugins and ensure your VLE conforms to pedagogical and technical requirements in your organization. You’ll then learn how to integrate the VLE via web services and network it with other sites, including Mahara, and extend your system via plugins and LTI. By the end of this book, you will be able to set up an efficient, fully fledged, and secure Moodle system.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Moodle 3 Administration Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Collaboration


One of Moodle's many advantages is its built-in support for collaboration among learners and instructors. This ranges from a number of collaborative course activities, such as, Forum, Wiki, Glossary, and Database, the ability to run activities in a group mode, and support for groupings. Additionally, there are three social activities in Moodle that have to be configured by the administrator. These include blogs, comments, and tags, as discussed in the following sections.

Configuring blogs

Blogs are a means for users to express themselves either in the form of a learning journal or as a personal account of events. The blogging mechanism provided to users allows the creation of personal as well as public entries and also posts relating to a course.

As an administrator, you will have to Enable blogs in the Advanced features menu. Once the blogs are enabled, there are a number of settings that are available when you navigate to Appearance | Blog:

Settings

Description

Enable blog...