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Moodle Administration Essentials

By : Henrick, Holland

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Moodle Administration Essentials

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By: Henrick, Holland

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Moodle in a Nutshell

1. Moodle in a Nutshell

Background of Moodle

Architecture of Moodle

Installing Moodle

Updating Moodle

Summary

2. Managing User Accounts and Authentication

2. Managing User Accounts and Authentication

Creating users

Editing a user

Uploading users

User authentication

Summary

3. Managing Categories and Courses

3. Managing Categories and Courses

Category creation

Course and category management

Course creation

Uploading courses

Course templates

Summary

4. Managing Site Appearance

4. 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

5. Role Management

Understanding terminologies

Standard roles

Managing role permissions

Other custom roles

Summary

6. Managing Site Plugins

6. 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

7. End of Year Course Rollover

Rollover implementation

Course backup

Course restore

Course reset

Summary

8. Miscellaneous Admin Tasks

8. Miscellaneous Admin Tasks

Monitoring Moodle usage

Performance testing

Security and resilience

General considerations

Summary

Index

Index

Understanding terminologies

There are some key terms used to describe users' abilities in Moodle and how they are defined, which are as follows:

Role: A role is a set or collection of permissions on different capabilities. There are default roles like teacher and student, which have predefined sets of permissions.
Capability: A capability is a specific behavior in Moodle, such as Start new discussions (mod/forum:startdiscussion), which can have a permission set within a role such as Allow or Not set/Inherit:
Permission: Permission is associated with a capability. There are four possible values: allow, prevent, prohibit, or not set.
- Not set: This means that that there is not a specific setting for this user role, and Moodle will determine if it is allowed, if set in a higher context.
- Allow: The permission is explicitly granted for the capability.
- Prevent: The permission is removed for the capability, even if allowed in a higher context. However, it can be overridden at a specific context...

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