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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)

CLI

We already encountered the CLI selectively throughout the book and during Chapter 1, Installing Moodle, when we dealt with Moodle upgrades. However, the CLI has a few more tricks up its sleeve, which we will deal with in this section.

First, let’s look at how you call CLI scripts, which are either located in admin/cli/* or in the sub-folder of plugins that offer a CLI option – for example, auth/ldap/cli. To call a CLI script, follow the following notation:

sudo –u <apache_user> /usr/bin/php admin/cli/<script>.php [--params]

Your <apache_user> is usually www-data, httpd, or apache.

Important note

Always run Moodle CLI scripts under the identity of the web server user.

Every CLI script has a --help parameter that offers additional information and also describes calling options and parameters. The following is a list of some useful CLI commands and chapter numbers in which they have been covered. Look in their respective CLI...