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Moodle 4 Administration - Fourth Edition

By : Alex Büchner
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Moodle 4 Administration - Fourth Edition

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 for one chapter.

The first part of this chapter demonstrated the different ways Moodle provides to manage users. We first looked at what information is stored for each user account and how their profiles can be extended. We then performed several standard manual and bulk user actions before dealing with cohorts.

In the second part, we dealt with different types of user authentication, namely internal, external, service providers (via OAuth 2), and system. Due to the variety and complexity of authentication methods, we covered prominent plugins in more detail than others.

Authentication has become a complex topic, and we only touched upon methods supported in Moodle core. Other methods such as Microsoft Azure AD or Open ID as well as mechanisms such as two-factor authentication, one-time passwords, and user key authentication are beyond the scope of this already packed chapter and are catered for via plugins at moodle.org/plugins/?q=type...