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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

Other major plugin types


All major plugin types are described in the Moodle documentation at https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Plugin_types. For completeness, they are listed here:

Plugin type

Description

Activity modules

Activity modules are essential types of plugin in Moodle as they provide activities in courses. For example: Forum, Quiz, and Assignment.

Antivirus plugins

Antivirus scanner plugins provide functionality for scanning user uploaded files using third-party virus scanning tools in Moodle. For example: ClamAV.

Assignment submission plugins

Different forms of assignment submissions.

Assignment feedback plugins

Different forms of assignment feedback.

Book tools

Small information displays or tools that can be moved around pages.

Database fields

Different types of data that may be added to the database activity module.

Database pre-sets

Predefined templates for the database activity module.

LTI sources

LTI providers can be added to external tools easily through the external tools interface see the documentation...