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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

Collaboration


One of Moodle's many advantages is its built-in support for collaboration among learners and instructors. This ranges from a number of collaborative course activities, such as, Wiki, Glossary, and Database, the ability to run activities in group mode, and the support for groupings. Social networking is the latest buzz on the Internet that conforms with Moodle's pedagogical philosophy of social constructivism. There are three activities in Moodle that have to be configured by the administrator. These activities include blogs, comments, and tags, discussed in the following sections.

Blogs

Blogs are a means for users to express themselves, either in the form of a learning journal or as a personal account of events. The blogging mechanism provided to users allows for the creation of personal as well as public entries and also posts relating to a course.

As an administrator, you will have to specify the Blog visibility in the Advanced features menu. The self-explanatory options...