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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

A high-level overview


To give you an overview of courses, users, and roles, let's have a look at the following diagram. It shows nicely how central the three concepts are, and also how other features are related to them. Again, all of their intricacies will be dealt with in due course so, for now, just start getting familiar with Moodle terminology.

Let's start at the bottom left and cycle through the pyramid clockwise. Users have to go through an Authentication process to get access to Moodle. They then have to go through an Enrolments step to be able to participate in Courses which themselves are organized into Categories. Groups & Cohorts are different ways to group users at course level or sitewide. Users are granted Roles in particular Contexts. Which role is allowed to do what and which isn't depends entirely on the Permissions set within that role.

The diagram also demonstrates a Catch-22 situation. If we start with users, we have no courses to enrol them in to (except the front...