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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

Phew! That was a lot to take in. The complexity of courses, their management, and various facets of enrolments demonstrate a typical Moodle conundrum: the features are very powerful and flexible, but this versatility comes at a price in the form of complexity. Moodle has done a great job in mastering this balancing act, but nonetheless, there is usually a steep learning curve to be mastered.

In this chapter, you learned everything about courses and categories. As we have discovered, courses are fundamental to Moodle, as they contain all the learning activities and content prepared by teachers and used by students. Even Moodle’s home page is a course, but we will deal with this later when we customize the look and feel of your LMS.

While it is possible to delegate many course-related tasks to non-administrators – we will deal with this in Chapter 6, Managing Permissions, Roles, and Capabilities – you, as the administrator, are often required to set...