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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
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Preface

Chapter 15. Moodle Integration via Web Services

We have already seen that Moodle is a highly modular environment, which guarantees extensibility and adaptability. We have also mentioned that Moodle can be connected to other Moodle instances or Mahara, which we will cover in Chapter 16, Moodle Networking. Now, we are looking at the integration of Moodle with external systems via web services.

After providing a brief overview of web services and giving some application examples, you will learn about the following administrative topics:

  • Moodle and web services: We will provide information about the basics concepts of Moodle web services

  • External systems controlling Moodle: You will learn to set up the Moodle web service for another application to control Moodle

  • Users controlling Moodle: You will learn to set up the Moodle web service for a user as client

  • Mobile Moodle: We will talk through the setting up of Moodle so it can be used with the official mobile Moodle application

We will not cover...