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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
6
Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds

System APIs


Having built a basic administration plugin in the first half of this chapter, in the next we will be looking at a simple Moodle course plugin and, by doing so, investigate five more basic internal programming interfaces:

  • Events API
  • File Storage API
  • Cache API
  • Form API
  • Output API

The plugin we will be investigating in this chapter (and will continue to develop in Chapter 5, Creative Teaching - Developing Custom Resources and Activities) is an enhanced multiple choice interaction, based on the choice activity (see https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Choice_activity).

Our instructional design (ID) colleagues who have been developing the Organizational Resilience Training Program have been working on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that contain images in the distractors and key. The following is an extract from the storyboard:

This question is to be used as part of a face-to-face classroom teaching exercise. An image of each type of fire extinguisher is to be included in the question. However...