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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

Site-level backups


So far, we have covered how to back up a single course. The site-level backup performs the same operation for every course on the system, including hidden courses and the front page, which is also a course (the name of the front page backup uses the site name).

Backup settings

To schedule site backups go to Courses | Backups | Automated backup setup. You will see a number of settings:

Setting

Description

Active

Turns automatic backup on and off (default). Make sure that your backup is activated! You can further set the backup mode to Manual, which allows execution via the CLI (discussed later).

Schedule

Specify the days of the week on which the backup has to run.

Execute at

Specify the time of the day the backup is executed.

Automated backup storage

By default, all backups are stored in the Course backup areaof each course. If you wish to keep all the backups at the same location you have to select Specified directory for automated backups. It is also...