Many of the configuration choices that are made after the installation process affect the student and teacher experience in Moodle. These configuration settings affect the experience of the students and teachers, when they use the site. This chapter focuses on helping you create the user experience you want by making the right configuration choices.

Many of the configuration choices you make will be easy to decide upon. For example, will you allow your users to select their own time zones? Other configuration choices are not so obvious. You could spend a lot of time trying different settings to see what effect a setting has on your user's experience. These are the settings that I will focus on, in this chapter. My goal is to save your time by showing you the various effects that your configuration choices will have on your site.

If your system administrator or webmaster has installed Moodle for you, you might be tempted to just accept the default configuration...