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Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By : Susan Smith Nash, William Rice
Book Image

Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development - Fourth Edition

By: Susan Smith Nash, William Rice

Overview of this book

Moodle is a learning platform or Course Management System (CMS) that is easy to install and use, but the real challenge is in developing a learning process that leverages its power and maps the learning objectives to content and assessments for an integrated and effective course. Moodle 3 E-Learning Course Development guides you through meeting that challenge in a practical way. This latest edition will show you how to add static learning material, assessments, and social features such as forum-based instructional strategy, a chat module, and forums to your courses so that students reach their learning potential. Whether you want to support traditional class teaching or lecturing, or provide complete online and distance e-learning courses, this book will prove to be a powerful resource throughout your use of Moodle. You’ll learn how to create and integrate third-party plugins and widgets in your Moodle app, implement site permissions and user accounts, and ensure the security of content and test papers. Further on, you’ll implement PHP scripts that will help you create customized UIs for your app. You’ll also understand how to create your first Moodle VR e-learning app using the latest VR learning experience that Moodle 3 has to offer. By the end of this book, you will have explored the decisions, design considerations, and thought processes that go into developing a successful course.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installation step 7 – Final configuration


Take a look at the settings within Moodle and review the options within the Moodle Site administration screens (accessible from the Site administration tab in the Administration block).

You will be able to include plugins and set up email and authentication:

  • Administration | Site administration | Plugins | Message outputs | Email: Set your SMTP server and authentication if required (so that your Moodle site can send emails). The support contact for your site is also set on this page.
  • Administration | Site administration | Server | System paths: Set the paths to du, dot, and aspell binaries.
  • Administration | Site administration | Server | HTTP: If you are behind a firewall, you may need to set your proxy credentials in the Web proxy section.
  • Administration | Site administration | Location | Update timezones: Run this to ensure that your time zone information is up to date.

If you have any problems along the way, it's a good idea to visit Moodle's Installation...