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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
www.PacktPub.com
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Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned the various Moodle backup alternatives. You learned how to create course-level, site-level, and system-level backups as well as data recovery from each type. It is important that your Moodle backup strategy fits in with your organization's overall disaster recovery plan. We have also shown some applications that make use of the backup and restore facilities.

Moodle offers a good range of backup and restore options. However, there are sometimes problems with some of the built-in backup and recovery operations. The common causes for problems are time-outs, memory overload, archives that cannot be read, and third-party add-ons. Be aware that these issues exist and run test recoveries to be on the safe side.