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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

Installing Git


To begin, you will need to download and install Git on your development machine. Visit https://git-scm.com/downloads for more information. The installation instructions are easy to follow.

Configuring SSH

Rather than having to authenticate with GitHub every time you connect to it, you can configure your development machine to connect with SSH using automatic authentication. Follow the instructions at https://help.github.com/articles/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/ for details. Again, the configuration instructions are easy to follow.

Once installed, two new menu options will be added to your mouse (right-click) context menu:

In the preceding screenshot, the mod folder is selected. Now, choose the Git Bash Here option from the menu. The Git Bash window will be displayed, as follows:

Now, you can clone a repository from GitHub to your development machine. Visit https://github.com/iandavidwild/moodle-mod_wavefront and then look for the Clone or download button:

Click on the Clone or...