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Moodle 4 Administration - Fourth Edition

By : Alex Büchner
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Book Image

Moodle 4 Administration - Fourth Edition

5 (1)
By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

This updated fourth edition of the classic Moodle Administration guide has been written from the ground up and covers all the new Moodle features in great breadth and depth. The topics have also been augmented with professional diagrams, illustrations, and checklists. The book starts by covering basic tasks such as how to set up and configure Moodle and perform day-to-day administration activities. You’ll then progress to more advanced topics that show you how to customize and extend Moodle, manage authentication and enrolments, and work with roles and capabilities. Next, you'll learn how to configure pedagogical and technical Moodle plugins and ensure your LMS complies with data protection regulations. Then, you will learn how to tighten Moodle’s security, improve its performance, and configure backup and restore procedures. Finally, you'll gain insights on how to compile custom reports, configure learning analytics, enable mobile learning, integrate Moodle via web services, and support different types of multi-tenancy. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to set up an efficient, fully fledged, and secure Moodle system.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Summary

You learned how to optimize and monitor Moodle’s performance in this chapter. We first provided an overview of Moodle performance and briefly mentioned optimizing hardware, networks, databases, web servers, and course content. The key Moodle performance topics have been grouped into the following sections:

  • Moodle feature performance: We covered performance issues in Moodle functions and Moodle activities.
  • Moodle Universal Cache: We dealt with the powerful MUC and configured cache types, cache stores, and cache definitions before testing MUC performance and activating various caching options.
  • Moodle system performance: We optimized session handling, cron management and scheduled tasks, global search, and system paths.

The chapter was concluded with a short Moodle performance profiling and monitoring section.

As you have probably gathered from the chapter, optimization is not always straightforward. It depends on various circumstances, such as...