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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

Text filters


One of the tasks of the organizational resilience project is the standardization of language--in other words, ensuring there is standardization of common terms and definitions across the project. There was some discussion as to whether Moodle could be used to filter text and check for the appearance of specified terms. As a proof of concept, we can finish this chapter by having some fun with text filters. The idea discussed is that we are able to use Moodle to filter text displayed on a page to (potentially) replace words and phrases as they are harmonized across the resilience project. Let's demonstrate how this can be done by creating a Swedish Chef text filter. The code we will be using is based on the ezborktranslator--see https://github.com/patrickallaert/ezpublish-legacy-php7/blob/master/lib/ezi18n/classes/ezborktranslator.php.

For details on how filters are constructed, check out the Moodle documentation: https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Filters#Creating_a_basic_filter.

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