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Moodle 4 Administration - Fourth Edition

By : Alex Büchner
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Moodle 4 Administration - Fourth Edition

By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

This updated fourth edition of the classic Moodle Administration guide has been written from the ground up and covers all the new Moodle features in great breadth and depth. The topics have also been augmented with professional diagrams, illustrations, and checklists. The book starts by covering basic tasks such as how to set up and configure Moodle and perform day-to-day administration activities. You’ll then progress to more advanced topics that show you how to customize and extend Moodle, manage authentication and enrolments, and work with roles and capabilities. Next, you'll learn how to configure pedagogical and technical Moodle plugins and ensure your LMS complies with data protection regulations. Then, you will learn how to tighten Moodle’s security, improve its performance, and configure backup and restore procedures. Finally, you'll gain insights on how to compile custom reports, configure learning analytics, enable mobile learning, integrate Moodle via web services, and support different types of multi-tenancy. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to set up an efficient, fully fledged, and secure Moodle system.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)

Roles and context management

We have now dealt with the essential tools so that we can use, modify, and create roles. Moodle offers some crucial features when working extensively with roles, which we will cover in this section. We will deal with role assignments and override allowances before assigning default roles. Then, we will learn about context freezing and conclude with best practice advice.

Allowing roles assignments and overrides

By default, some roles have the right to allow other roles to assign roles. For instance, a teacher is allowed to assign Non-editing teacher and Student roles, whereas the manager is allowed to assign all the roles except the Guest, Authenticated user, and Authenticated user on site home roles (these are automatically assigned when a user signs in for the first time). There will be instances when you wish to change the default settings; for example, a teacher should be allowed to assign roles to other teachers or when the newly created roles...