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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

By : Ian Wild, Jaswant Tak
Book Image

Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

By: Ian Wild, Jaswant Tak

Overview of this book

The new and revamped Moodle is the top choice for developers to create cutting edge e-learning apps that cater to different user’s segments and are visually appealing as well. This book explains how the Moodle 3.x platform provides a framework that allows developers to create a customized e-learning solution. It begins with an exploration of the different types of plugin.. We then continue with an investigation of creating new courses. You will create a custom plugin that pulls in resources from a third-party repository. Then you’ll learn how users can be assigned to courses and granted the necessary permissions. Furthermore, you will develop a custom user home. At the end of the book, we’ll discuss the Web Services API to fully automate Moodle 3.x in real time.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface
6
Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds

C# client


In this section, you will learn how to develop a desktop Moodle Web Services client in C# using the Microsoft Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Microsoft provides a free version of Visual Studio called Visual Studio Community. In Chapter 9,Moodle Analytics, you learned how to develop an external Web Services API, which provided details of learners who had been awarded a certificate within a given time window. For reasons of security, in transit data is encrypted. We saw that decrypting data in PHP that has been encrypted in PHP is straightforward. However, decrypting data in another programming language, such as C#, is more complicated.

Let's start by installing the tools we need.