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Moodle 3 Administration - Third Edition

By : Alex Büchner
Book Image

Moodle 3 Administration - Third Edition

By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

Moodle is the de facto standard for open source learning platforms. However, setting up and managing a learning environment can be a complex task since it covers a wide range of technical, organizational, and pedagogical topics. This ranges from basic user and course management, to configuring plugins and design elements, all the way to system settings, performance optimization, events frameworks, and so on. This book concentrates on basic tasks such as how to set up and configure Moodle and how to perform day-to-day administration activities, and progresses on to more advanced topics that show you how to customize and extend Moodle, manage courses, cohorts, and users, and how to work with roles and capabilities. You’ll learn to configure Moodle plugins and ensure your VLE conforms to pedagogical and technical requirements in your organization. You’ll then learn how to integrate the VLE via web services and network it with other sites, including Mahara, and extend your system via plugins and LTI. By the end of this book, you will be able to set up an efficient, fully fledged, and secure Moodle system.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Moodle 3 Administration Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Moodle's reporting facilities


A report presents the content of the Moodle log in a sort of uniform format. Different reports make use of the same log. The site-wide logs can be accessed by going to Reports | Logs. At the top of the page, you have the ability to drill down to the data via filters:

The following filters are available:

Field

Description

Courses

Select a specific course or the entire Moodle site (Site logs).

Groups

Select a specific group or All groups. This is only displayed if the group mode is enabled in the selected (filtered) course.

Participants

Select a specific user or All participants.

Date

Specify a particular day or all days of activity. Unfortunately, it is not (yet) possible to specify date ranges.

Activities

Select whether you wish to run a report of All activities or Site errors. This list changes when a course has been selected.

Actions

You can choose among All actions, Create, View, Update, and Delete. These are the four options we came across when...