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Moodle Administration Essentials

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Moodle Administration Essentials

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 (15 chapters)
Moodle Administration Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Course and category management


The overall category hierarchy can be managed by editing category settings. Categories can also be hidden from view as can individual courses, although they can still be seen by administrator level users. Normal users are unable to see the hidden category itself and are unable to see any subcategories or courses that are in the hidden category.

Moodle has a course and category management page to enable easily:

  • creation of new courses and categories

  • changing the order in which courses and categories appear on the page

  • moving courses and categories into other categories

  • editing, hiding, and deleting of courses and categories

You can access this page through the administration block via Site administration | Courses | Manage courses and categories: