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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

Miscellaneous plugins


There are a number of additional plugin types that are used less frequently than the ones already covered. It is expected that more will be added to these categories in the future, either as part of the Moodle core or third-party add-ons.

Course formats

Course formats drive the way learning content is displayed in courses. Moodle drives four course formats; additional formats can either be downloaded from https://moodle.org/ or be custom developed. Three popular third-party course formats are the Grid format (https://moodle.org/plugins/format_grid), Collapsed Topics format (see installation later in the chapter), and the Socialwall format, which mimics a Facebook-like course layout (https://moodle.org/plugins/format_socialwall).

You can Enable and disable course formats and change the order of their appearance via the Up/Down arrows. Once uninstalled, the source of the format has to be removed at the system level to avoid reinstallation. Some course formats have settings...