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Moodle 2 Administration

Moodle 2 Administration

By : Alex Büchner
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Moodle 2 Administration

Moodle 2 Administration

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By: Alex Büchner
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Overview of this book

Moodle has evolved from an academic project to the world's most popular virtual learning environment. During this evolution, its complexity has risen dramatically and so have the skills that are required to administer the system.Moodle 2 Administration is a complete, practical guide to administering Moodle sites. It covers how to set up Moodle in any learning environment, configuration and day-to-day admin tasks, as well as advanced options for customizing and extending Moodle.The author, who has been administering systems for over 20 years, has adopted a problem-solution approach to bring the content in line with your day-to-day operations. The practical examples will help you to set up Moodle for large groups and small courses alike. This is a one-stop reference for any task you will ever come across when administering a Moodle site of any shape and size.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Moodle 2 Administration
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Moodle 2 Administration
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
PacktLib.PacktPub.com
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Preface
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Preface
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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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Installation in a Windows environment
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Installation in a Mac OS X environment
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Installation via the Command Line Interface
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Updating Moodle
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Summary
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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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Courses, Users, and Roles
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Courses, Users, and Roles
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A high-level overview
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Moodle courses
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Moodle users
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Moodle roles
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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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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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Usernames best practice
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Summary
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Managing Permissions: Roles and Capabilities
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Managing Permissions: Roles and Capabilities
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Moodle predefined roles
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Contexts
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Assigning roles
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Capabilities
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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 overview
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Customizing your front page
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Moodle themes
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Accessibility
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Summary
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Moodle Plugins
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Moodle Plugins
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Plugins an overview
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Module plugins
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Moodle repositories
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Moodle portfolios
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Miscellaneous plugins
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Summary
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Moodle Configuration
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Moodle Configuration
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Collaboration
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Localization
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Grades and gradebook settings
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Miscellaneous pedagogical settings
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Communication
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Experimental settings
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Summary
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Moodle Reporting
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Moodle Reporting
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Reporting overview
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Moodle's reporting facilities
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Statistics
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Report generation
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Data analysis
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Miscellaneous reports
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Summary
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Moodle Security and Privacy
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Moodle Security and Privacy
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Security an 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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Moodle privacy
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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 an 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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Backup and restore applications
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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 Integration via Web Services
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Moodle Integration via Web Services
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Web services an overview
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Web services in Moodle
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Enabling web services for external systems
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Enabling web services for users
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The Moodle mobile web service
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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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Moodle hubs
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Integrating Mahara
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Moodle Community Hub (MOOCH)
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Configuration Settings
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Configuration Settings
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Configuration reference an overview
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Configuration reference administration settings
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Configuration reference system settings

Configuration reference system settings

This is the actual reference of configuration settings. Explanations have been taken from help pages, forum posts, and comments in source code.

Default parameters

These are settings that have been created by the installer, derived from config-dist.php. Most parameters are compulsory for Moodle to operate, so be careful when changing any of them. The parameters are listed in the following table in the order in which they appear by default in config.php:

Parameter

Description

$CFG->dbtype (String)

The database system that is used. The four valid values are mysqli (MySQL), pgsql (PostgreSQL), mssql (MS SQL Server), and oci (Oracle).

$CFG->dblibrary (String)

Currently, only native is allowed as the entry value.

$CFG->dbhost (String)

The name of the database host. The valid value is localhost or 127.0.0.1 if the database is located on the server as Moodle. If the database is located on another server, the value is any other URL.

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