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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

Statistics


Moodle has a built-in statistics module, which you can reach via Reports | Statistics. By default, the component is disabled; this has to be changed first (Enable statistics in Advanced features), along with some settings.

Statistics settings

The Statistics module is deactivated by default due to the fact that the component is very resource-hungry both in terms of disk space usage and, more importantly, memory usage.

Note

Use the Statistics module only if you really require the information and can accept some potentially significant performance reduction.

The statistics settings are located in Server | Statistics. The following parameters are available:

Setting

Description

Maximum processing interval

After enabling the Statistics module, Moodle utilizes the logs described here to derive statistical information. Here, you need to specify the time Moodle should go back by, to gather the stats. Be aware that this is quite a resource-intensive operation.

Maximum runtime

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