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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

Supporting the LTI consumers and producers


According to IMS, Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a standard for learning tool interoperability to allow remote tools and content to be integrated into a Learning Management System. In Moodle, it is often referred to as an external tool, which supports LTI 2.0. Moodle and can act as an LTI consumer (external content can be used in Moodle) and LTI provider (Moodle content can be used in other LTI consumers):

  • Moodle as an LTI consumer: You have the option to configure external tools, which will then appear in the External Tool Types activity inside a course (go to Plugins | Activity modules | Manage external tool types. Each tool comprises a name and a base URL, which have to be provided by the provider. Additionally, Consumer key and Shared secret are needed. Here, a number of LTI tools have been created:

  • Moodle as an LTI producer: For Moodle to operate as an LTI consumer, a plugin has to be installed, which you can find at https://moodle...