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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

By : Ian Wild, Jaswant Tak
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

By: Ian Wild, Jaswant Tak

Overview of this book

The new and revamped Moodle is the top choice for developers to create cutting edge e-learning apps that cater to different user’s segments and are visually appealing as well. This book explains how the Moodle 3.x platform provides a framework that allows developers to create a customized e-learning solution. It begins with an exploration of the different types of plugin.. We then continue with an investigation of creating new courses. You will create a custom plugin that pulls in resources from a third-party repository. Then you’ll learn how users can be assigned to courses and granted the necessary permissions. Furthermore, you will develop a custom user home. At the end of the book, we’ll discuss the Web Services API to fully automate Moodle 3.x in real time.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
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Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds

Chapter 2. Moodle Plugins - What Can I Plug In?

Having readied our development environment and explored the thought processes that support building a Moodle plugin, in this chapter we will be investigating the types of plugin Moodle supports. Remember that the "M" in Moodle stands for modular; if there is a feature you need that Moodle doesn't support then we can build a plugin to implement it. Any aspect of the user experience can be enhanced and/or modified by a plugin. In this chapter, we will be mapping out the most common user journeys through the platform, from initial log on (authentication), through being assigned to courses (enrolment), and ultimately completion reporting.

As described in the previous chapter, we will be taking an Agile approach to plugin development, and that means we will be working with user stories (a description of what our work needs to achieve) rather than the more standard use cases (what our work needs to do) that you may be used to. This will require us...