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Moodle Administration Essentials

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Moodle Administration Essentials

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Moodle Administration Essentials
Jul, 2015 | 156 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Moodle Administration Essentials
Moodle Administration Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Moodle in a Nutshell
Moodle in a Nutshell
Background of Moodle
Architecture of Moodle
Installing Moodle
Updating Moodle
Summary
2
Managing User Accounts and Authentication
Managing User Accounts and Authentication
Creating users
Editing a user
Uploading users
User authentication
Summary
3
Managing Categories and Courses
Managing Categories and Courses
Category creation
Course and category management
Course creation
Uploading courses
Course templates
Summary
4
Managing Site Appearance
Managing Site Appearance
Configuring the landing page
Configuring the front page
Global theme settings
Introducing the Clean theme
Introducing the More theme
Cloning a theme
Summary
5
Role Management
Role Management
Understanding terminologies
Standard roles
Managing role permissions
Other custom roles
Summary
6
Managing Site Plugins
Managing Site Plugins
What are plugins?
Where to find plugins
Considerations when choosing a plugin
Installing plugins
Editing plugin settings
Updating plugins
Uninstalling plugins
Summary
7
End of Year Course Rollover
End of Year Course Rollover
Rollover implementation
Course backup
Course restore
Course reset
Summary
8
Miscellaneous Admin Tasks
Miscellaneous Admin Tasks
Monitoring Moodle usage
Performance testing
Security and resilience
General considerations
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at the background of Moodle, its architecture, and the installation and upgrade process.

In the next chapter, we will look at the essential areas of user account management, creating users, editing users, and customizing user details as required.

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