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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

The Moodle mobile web service


Moodle has released a free app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone that allows users to interact with a Moodle system. At the time of writing this (app version 2.6) of the app supports key functionalities for participants to access certain course content, receive notifications, upload data, view grades, and interact with other users. Additional tools will be added in the very near future.

The Moodle app is an alternative to accessing Moodle via a web browser on a mobile device (a smartphone or tablet). However, it not only supports a subset of learner-centric features, but it also has the advantage that the app has been specifically designed for mobile usage and also supports offline content.

The process of enabling the Moodle app to interact with your Moodle site has been greatly simplified. Once the mobile web service has been enabled by navigating to Plugins | Web services | Mobile, a built-in service will be activated (refer to https://docs.moodle.org/en/Mobile_web_services...