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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

Course blocks


From an initial requirement to access critical infrastructure data securely, the resilience project IDs want to include QR Codes as a novel means to include supplementary information, such as maps of critical infrastructure or answers to knowledge checks. Here is the user story:

In this section, we will be building a dedicated QR Code block--based on the QR Links plugin by Catalyst IT (see https://moodle.org/plugins/local_qrlinks). You can download the code described in this section from https://github.com/iandavidwild/moodle-block_qr_code. Here is the block in action:

Scanning the code will provide a link to a geographically accurate map of the London Underground.

Let's now start developing our new block. Firstly, we need to create a new folder under blocks called qr_code:

That done, there are four files we need to create in order to implement our new Moodle block. The first is \block_qr_code.php. This will contain a declaration of a new class called block_qr_code, an extension...