Moodle comes with a multitude of configuration options. In this chapter, we will cover the most important settings, most of which are likely to be relevant to your organization. We will distinguish between educational and technical configurations:
Educational configuration: These settings are likely to require input from other stakeholders in the organization as they cover areas that are of a pedagogical (not technical) nature. The areas that are covered are collaboration (blogs, comments, and tags), badges, LTI, localization, grades and gradebooks, and a number of miscellaneous settings.
Technical configuration: These are settings that require some technical knowledge about your infrastructure. The topics that are dealt with are synchronous communication (instant messaging and video conferencing), asynchronous communication (inbound and outbound messaging as well as RSS feeds), and a number of experimental settings.
There are a number of additional configuration...