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Moodle Administration

Moodle Administration

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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Moodle Administration
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Moodle Administration
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewer
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About the Reviewer
Preface
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Preface
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Introduction
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Introduction
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Moodle's Rationale
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Moodle Overview
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The Moodle Model
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Moodle Usage
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VLE Administration
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Moodle Administration
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Summary
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Moodle Installation
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Moodle Installation
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Moodle Installation: An Overview
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Installation in a LAMP Environment
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The Moodle System
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The Moodle System
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Moodle Architecture
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Finding Your Way Around in Moodle
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File Management
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Summary
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Course Management
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Course Management
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Course Categories
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Creating Courses
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Forms of Enrolment
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Summary
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User Management
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User Management
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Authentication Versus Enrolment
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User Profiles
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Standard User Actions
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Manual Accounts
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User Authentication
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Username Best Practices
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Summary
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Roles and Permissions
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Roles and Permissions
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Moodle's PreDefined Roles
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Contexts
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Assignment of Roles
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Capabilities and Permissions
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Roles Management
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Summary
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Moodle: Look and Feel
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Moodle: Look and Feel
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Look and Feel: An Overview
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Customizing Your Front Page
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Moodle Themes
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Look and Feel: Good Practice
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Summary
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Moodle Configuration
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Moodle Configuration
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Accessibility
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Localization
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Module Configuration
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Grades and Gradebook Settings
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Miscellaneous Settings
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Summary
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Monitoring User Activity
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Monitoring User Activity
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Monitoring Overview
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Reporting
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Tracking
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Statistics
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Privacy and Data Protection Issues
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Summary
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Moodle Security
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Moodle Security
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Security Overview
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Security Notifications
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User Security
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Data and Content Security
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System Security
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Summary
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Moodle Performance and Optimization
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Moodle Performance and Optimization
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Performance and Optimization Overview
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Moodle Content
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Moodle System Settings
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Moodle Performance Profiling and Monitoring
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Summary
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Backup and Restore
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Backup and Restore
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Course-Level Backup and Restore
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Site-Level Backups
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System-Level Backups
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Summary
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Installing Third-Party Add-Ons
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Installing Third-Party Add-Ons
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Third-Party Software: An Overview
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Good Add-Ons and Bad Add-Ons
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Popular Add-Ons
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Installing Third-Party Add-Ons
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Uninstalling Third-Party Add-Ons
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Summary
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Moodle Networking
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Moodle Networking
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Networking Overview
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Networking Prerequisites and Security
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Peer-To-Peer Networks
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Community Hubs
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Mahara Integration
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Summary
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Moodle Health Check
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Moodle Health Check
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Moodle Health Check: Performance
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Moodle Health Check: Security
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Functionality
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System
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Configuration Settings Reference
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Configuration Settings Reference
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Configuration Reference: An Overview
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Configuration Reference: Administration Settings
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Configuration Reference: System Settings
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Configuration Reference: Theme Settings
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Index
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Index

Moodle Architecture

We will first look at the overall LAMP architecture on which Moodle is based, before we cover the internal components of the VLE layer.

The LAMP Architecture

Moodle is developed on the open-source LAMP framework consisting of Linux (operating system), Apache (web server), MySQL (database), and PHP (programming language). Due to the portability of these components and the modularity of Moodle itself (that's what the "M" stands for), it can support a wide range of operating systems, database systems, and web servers. A simple overview of the LAMP architecture can be shown as follows:

The lowest level is the Operating System. While Linux is the preferred platform, other UNIX derivatives such as Solaris and AIX are supported as well, along with Windows and Mac OS X. Certain libraries will have to be installed, a topic we covered in the previous chapter on installation.

PHP is the Programming Language in which Moodle is developed (accompanied by HTML and CSS files). It...

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