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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

Introducing the Clean theme

The Clean theme is one of the default themes for Moodle 2.8. It is based on the well-known Bootstrap theme, which was originally created for Moodle version 2.5, by Bas Brands, David Scotson, and Mary Evans with the help of Stuart Lamour, Mark Aberdour, and Paul Hibbitts.

The Clean theme includes the main Bootstrap framework features for supporting a responsive, modular, and mobile-first web site. This ensures that the layout of web pages adjusts dynamically, based on the characteristics of the device used to view the web pages, be it desktop, tablet, or mobile phone.

The Clean theme is characterized by a clean, minimalist, and uncluttered layout with a sparing use of color.

Configuring the Clean theme

To configure the Clean theme, perform the following:

  1. In the Administration block, navigate to Site administration | Appearance | Themes | Clean:

  2. Tick the Invert navbar option to swap colors if preferred.

  3. For the Logo, upload your own logo using the file picker.

  4. If your uploaded...

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