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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

The Moodle editor


The editor is central to any user experience in Moodle since it is used throughout the site for a wide range of operations. This includes posting in forums (learner), providing feedback to submissions (teacher), and editing content (editing teacher). You, as the administrator, should ensure that the editor is configured in a way that facilitates your users' requirements.

Moodle's default editor is called Atto, which has been developed by Moodle for Moodle. Atto has been designed to work with responsible themes, support left-to-right as well as right-to-left strings, provide accessibility support, and is fully configurable.

Prior to Moodle 2.7. the TinyMCE editor was used, which is still supported. We will not deal with TinyMCE since it is expected that this editor will be phased out over future releases. Additionally, Moodle contains a built-in plain text editor that has been implemented to enter any text that does not require formatting, for instance, source code.

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