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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

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned everything about courses and categories. As we have discovered, courses are key to Moodle as they contain all the learning activities and content prepared by teachers and used by students. Even Moodle's front page is a course, but we will deal with this later when we customize the look and feel of your VLE.

Closely related to courses is the enrolment of users. It is important that you understand the difference between enrolment, which we've covered in this chapter, and authentication, which we will discuss in great detail in the following chapter.