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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

Encouraging learners to start a course


Our client also wants to show learners a simple list of courses, together with a short description and a launch button on the dashboard. The block should give the learner an indication of courses available to them, those they have started, and courses they have completed (this is to complement the progress block we developed in the previous section). The following is the user story:

The user interface consists of a block to display a list of courses and, where appropriate, a button which displays a course overview page. The following are the wireframes that have been agreed with the client. Firstly, the block as they are wanting it to be displayed on the learner dashboard:

When the learner clicks on the Description button, the client wants a Course information page to be displayed:

Again, this will also be implemented as a new block - and the version of this block we will be working together to develop is available at https://github.com/iandavidwild/moodle...