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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

Chapter 8. Moodle Plugins

Your system is now fully operational and has the look and feel to reflect the branding of your organization. As with all the complex web-based applications, there are a significant number of configuration activities that can be carried out to bring Moodle in line with your organization's needs and requirements.

One of the many strengths of Moodle is its pluggable architecture. Moodle supports a wide range of plugins, which will be covered in this chapter.

  • Module plugins: These cover the core functionality available in a course, a front page, dashboard, and user profile pages. These include Activity modules, Blocks, and Filters.

  • Repositories: Repositories allow the incorporating of data into Moodle, either from internal sources or external sites.

  • Portfolios: These are the opposite of repositories. Portfolios allow the exporting of content from Moodle to other applications or data storage.

  • Miscellaneous plugins: These include Course formats, Question types and behaviors...