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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
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Preface

Creating courses


Once the Add a new course button has been clicked from within the Course categories screen, Moodle directs you to the screen where course details have to be entered. We already came across this screen during earlier chapters. These details are identical to the course settings that can be edited from within a course by a user with teaching rights. The only difference is that, by default, the teacher does not have the right to change the category to which the course belongs.

The following settings are available:

Setting

Description

Category

Category to which the course belongs.

Course full name

The full name of the course (displayed at the top of the screen and in the course listings).

Course short name

Many organizations have a short form for referring to a course. This field is compulsory as it is used in several places where the full name is inappropriate (such as in the breadcrumb trail or when uploading users in batch files).

Course ID Number

Course...