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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

Summary


After providing a general overview of the elements involved in the look and feel of Moodle, this chapter covered the front page and theme customizations of Moodle as well as editor configuration and accessibility. We also dealt with supporting mobile devices. Read more about all of these in Chapter 16, Moodle Networking, when we cover web services, which allow the usage of your site with the help of dedicated mobile apps.

As mentioned earlier, the front page in Moodle is a course. This has advantages (you can do everything that you can do in a course and a little bit more), but it also has drawbacks (you can only do the same things that you do in a course and might feel limited by this). However, some organizations are now using Moodle's front page as their main home page. Again, this might or might not work for you.

Now that your Moodle looks (hopefully) the way you want it to, it is time to enable all the functionalities that you wish to offer your users. Plugins and configuration...