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Moodle Administration

By : Moodle Trust, Alex Büchner
Book Image

Moodle Administration

By: Moodle Trust, Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Moodle Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Chapter 13. Installing Third-Party Add-Ons

There exists a plethora of third-party Moodle software that add new functionalities, fix problems, or integrate Moodle with external systems. In this chapter you will learn the essentials about installing third-party add-ons.

  • Good and bad third-party add-ons

    Since externally developed software is not scrutinized by Moodle's quality assurance process, you have to make a judgment about the trustworthiness of non-core add-ons. A checklist of criteria is provided to make this decision a bit easier.

  • Popular third-party add-ons

    There are over 400 titles to choose from; for your convenience we discuss the most popular ones.

  • Installation of third-party add-ons

    We describe the installation process using the popular Feedback activity module as an example.

  • Uninstalling third-party add-ons

    Here we describe how to uninstall third-party add-ons.

Let's start with an overview of third-party software.