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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

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Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook

Overview of this book

Moodle is growing at a seemingly unstoppable rate. One of the key reasons for its popularity lies in its potential to extend with modules, thus making the site easier to administer, add new features, and completely change the way it looks. This book finds you the best Moodle modules, teaches you how to install them, and helps you to master their configuration.There are hundreds of Moodle modules available. Find out which you can trust and how to put them to work. This practical book gives you hands-on experience on using and managing Moodle modules, thus making your learning website feature-rich. It covers many features and techniques in order to allow you to organize your ideas to improve teaching using Moodle as a virtual learning platformThis book begins with simple activities such as adding and installing modules. Then, it moves to a very interesting topic about the integration of multimedia into Moodle, covering major multimedia elements such as images, audio, and video. Social networking applications like Twitter and Facebook are embedded in the Moodle course in order to invent stories, create group works, and create social team interactions with the virtual classroom. But the book doesn't end there, you will also see how to use Moodle to accept and assess coursework submissions, discuss work with students, and deliver quizzes, tests, and videos.The book ends with a chapter full of simple challenges such as adding educational games. This book is written to help you find modules that will be useful to you and your students, and to show examples of how these modules can be setup and used in teaching.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 1.9 Top Extensions Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Allowing modules to access outside information


Some modules require access to information outside your server. To achieve this, some modules use the cURL PHP library. If PHP is installed, the cURL library is likely to be available with your web server, but it may be disabled. The XAMPP server has cURL disabled by default.

Getting ready

To enable cURL in PHP 5 on XAMPP, you need to edit the php.ini file. This file is located in the php\ directory under your web server's root directory.

How to do it...

Within the file, locate the following line:

;extension=php_curl.dll

Remove the semi-colon to uncomment this line. This will enable the cURL library. Save the file after making this change. Restart the Apache server for this to take effect.

If you visit the phpinfo page, cURL support should be enabled.

Even with cURL enabled, you may still have problems if your site is hosted behind a firewall. If this is the case, contact your network administrator.