Moodle, like any other web application, has the potential to be misused. Moodle has dedicated an entire administration section to security settings, using which you can fine-tune its safety. After an overview of Moodle security, you will learn about the following topics:
Security notifications: We will learn how to set up a number of notification mechanisms that warn you about potential security issues and look at the built-in security report.
User security: We will look at access to Moodle (self-registration, guest access, protection of user details, and course contacts), Moodle passwords, security in roles, and spam prevention.
Data and content security: We will deal with potential issues in content created within Moodle, and visibility of content. You will learn how to set up a site policy and how to configure the antivirus scanner.
System security: We will discuss configuration settings (location of the dataroot directory and the cron process...