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Moodle Administration Essentials

Moodle Administration Essentials

By : Henrick, Holland
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Moodle Administration Essentials

Moodle Administration Essentials

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By: Henrick, Holland
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Overview of this book

If you are an experienced system administrator and know how to manage servers and set up web environments but now want to explore Moodle, this book is perfect for you. You'll get to grips with the basics and learn to manage Moodle quickly, focusing on essential tasks. Having prior knowledge of virtual learning environments would be beneficial, but is not mandatory to make the most of this book.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Moodle in a Nutshell
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1. Moodle in a Nutshell
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Background of Moodle
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Architecture of Moodle
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Installing Moodle
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Updating Moodle
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Summary
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2. Managing User Accounts and Authentication
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2. Managing User Accounts and Authentication
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Creating users
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Editing a user
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Uploading users
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User authentication
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Summary
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3. Managing Categories and Courses
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3. Managing Categories and Courses
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Category creation
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Course and category management
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Course creation
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Uploading courses
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Course templates
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4. Managing Site Appearance
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4. Managing Site Appearance
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Configuring the landing page
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Configuring the front page
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Global theme settings
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Introducing the Clean theme
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Introducing the More theme
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Cloning a theme
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5. Role Management
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5. Role Management
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Understanding terminologies
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Standard roles
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Managing role permissions
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Other custom roles
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6. Managing Site Plugins
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6. Managing Site Plugins
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What are plugins?
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Where to find plugins
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Considerations when choosing a plugin
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Installing plugins
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Editing plugin settings
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Updating plugins
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Uninstalling plugins
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7. End of Year Course Rollover
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7. End of Year Course Rollover
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Rollover implementation
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Course backup
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Course restore
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Course reset
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8. Miscellaneous Admin Tasks
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8. Miscellaneous Admin Tasks
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Monitoring Moodle usage
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Performance testing
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Security and resilience
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General considerations
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Summary
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Index
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Index

User authentication

User authentication handles how a user profile logs into Moodle. Each user typically will have a username and password that they will enter into the login form.

When they submit the login form, Moodle determines if they are a user and how they should be authenticated as a valid user. To achieve this, every Moodle user account is designated an authentication type.

Authentication types

When a user attempts to log into Moodle, their authentication type will determine how Moodle authenticates their submitted data (their username and password).

The two most widely used authentication types are Manual accounts and e-mail-based self-registration, which will be described in more detail here.

The most commonly used authentication types are:

  • Internal
    • Manual accounts
    • E-mail-based self-registration
  • External
    • LDAP
    • External database
    • IMAP

In this section, we will just focus on the two internal authentication types.

How to enable authentication plugins

To configure the available authentication types...

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