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Moodle 2 Administration

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Moodle 2 Administration

Overview of this book

Moodle has evolved from an academic project to the world's most popular virtual learning environment. During this evolution, its complexity has risen dramatically and so have the skills that are required to administer the system.Moodle 2 Administration is a complete, practical guide to administering Moodle sites. It covers how to set up Moodle in any learning environment, configuration and day-to-day admin tasks, as well as advanced options for customizing and extending Moodle.The author, who has been administering systems for over 20 years, has adopted a problem-solution approach to bring the content in line with your day-to-day operations. The practical examples will help you to set up Moodle for large groups and small courses alike. This is a one-stop reference for any task you will ever come across when administering a Moodle site of any shape and size.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Moodle 2 Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface

Miscellaneous reports


Moodle ships with a number of additional reports, which assist the administrator in monitoring certain activities that take place. Some are only described briefly; for others, references to dedicated chapters are given. All reports are accessible via the Reports menu. These reports are listed as follows:

  • Comments: A table is shown containing the Author and Content of any comment left on the system. You have the ability to delete any of the comments. For more information on this topic, see the Collaboration section in Chapter 9,Moodle Configuration.

  • Backups: For each automated backup, the Course, Time taken, Status (OK, Skipped, Unfinished, or Error), and time of the Next backup are listed. For more information on backups, see Chapter 13,Backup and Restore.

  • Config changes: This table shows any changes made to any settings in the Site administration section. For each modification, the Date, First name / Surname, Plugin, Setting, New value, and Original value are shown...