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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

Activities


Moodle activity plugins support teaching interactions. If we are working on a user story that describes some form of learner input, then it is a safe bet that we need to create an activity to support that.

In terms of structure, there is little difference between an activity and a resource--an activity will be listed as such in the Add an activity or resource dialog if the xxxx_supports() library callback function doesn't specify the module archetype as a resource (as described earlier in this chapter).

Recall that the user story we have been provided with, describes the choice activity (https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Choice_activity) with the choices, potentially, enhanced with multimedia.

Enhanced choice

Using a development environment such as Eclipse will make the transformation of the choice module into the enhanced choice module simple. First we simply right-click on the /mod/choice folder and paste it back in to the /mod folder as enhancedchoice.

Next, we need to modify /version...