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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

Moodle portfolios


According to Moodle Docs, Moodle portfolios enable data, such as forum posts or assignment submissions, to be exported to external systems.

Moodle portfolios have to be enabled by selecting the Enable portfolios parameter in Advanced features. Once this has been done, you have access to all available portfolio plugins in Plugins | Portfolios | Manage portfolios.

Each portfolio has one of three states:

  • Enabled and visible: The portfolio will be available throughout the system

  • Enabled but hidden: Portfolios have to be activated to be used

  • Disabled: The portfolio is not available in your Moodle system

Once at least one portfolio has been set up, users will see an Export to portfolio link or icon at various places in their courses (for instance, assignment submissions, forum posts, and glossary entries). When this link is clicked, they will have to select one of the existing destinations from the Select destination drop-down menu. Depending on the chosen portfolio type, additional...