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Moodle 3 Administration - Third Edition

By : Alex Büchner
Book Image

Moodle 3 Administration - Third Edition

By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

Moodle is the de facto standard for open source learning platforms. However, setting up and managing a learning environment can be a complex task since it covers a wide range of technical, organizational, and pedagogical topics. This ranges from basic user and course management, to configuring plugins and design elements, all the way to system settings, performance optimization, events frameworks, and so on. This book concentrates on basic tasks such as how to set up and configure Moodle and how to perform day-to-day administration activities, and progresses on to more advanced topics that show you how to customize and extend Moodle, manage courses, cohorts, and users, and how to work with roles and capabilities. You’ll learn to configure Moodle plugins and ensure your VLE conforms to pedagogical and technical requirements in your organization. You’ll then learn how to integrate the VLE via web services and network it with other sites, including Mahara, and extend your system via plugins and LTI. By the end of this book, you will be able to set up an efficient, fully fledged, and secure Moodle system.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Moodle 3 Administration Third Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Data analysis


If these described reporting facilities do not satisfy your hunger for usage data, you might consider using external web analysis tools, such as web log analyzers. You can also utilize a live data tracking system, such as Piwik and Google Analytics, that can be embedded in your Moodle site.

Web log analyzers

Web servers, such as Apache and Microsoft IIS, keep textual log files that keep track of every hit on a website. The fields and their formats can be customized so that each log file will look potentially different from the other. The following two lines are from our Moodle test site (IP addresses have been replaced and server directories are shortened):

123.45.67.89 - - [26/Feb/2015:08:15:30 +0000] "GET .../synergy-learning/packt/httpdocs/course/view.php?id=3 HTTP/1.0" 404 1045 "-""-"
123.45.67.89 - - [26/Feb/2015:08:15:30 +0000] "GET .../synergy-learning/packt/httpdocs/mod/quiz/view.php?id=12 HTTP/1.0" 404 2180"-""-"

As you can see, these files are not meant to be read by...