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Moodle 3 Administration. An administrator’s guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle - Third Edition

Moodle 3 Administration. An administrator’s guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle - Third Edition

Alex Büchner

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Moodle is the de facto standard for open source learning platforms. However, setting up and managing a learning environment can be a complex task since it covers a wide range of technical, organizational, and pedagogical topics. This ranges from basic user and course management, to configuring plugins and design elements, all the way to system settings, performance optimization, events frameworks, and so on.

This book concentrates on basic tasks such as how to set up and configure Moodle and how to perform day-to-day administration activities, and progresses on to more advanced topics that show you how to customize and extend Moodle, manage courses, cohorts, and users, and how to work with roles and capabilities. You’ll learn to configure Moodle plugins and ensure your VLE conforms to pedagogical and technical requirements in your organization. You’ll then learn how to integrate the VLE via web services and network it with other sites, including Mahara, and extend your system via plugins and LTI. By the end of this book, you will be able to set up an efficient, fully fledged, and secure Moodle system.
  • 1. Moodle Installation
  • 2. The Moodle System
  • 3. Courses, Users and Roles
  • 4. Course Management
  • 5. User Management
  • 6. Roles and Permissions
  • 7. Look and Feel
  • 8. Plugins
  • 9. Configuration
  • 10. Monitoring User Activity
  • 11. Security and Privacy
  • 12. Performance and Optimization
  • 13. Backup and Restore
  • 14. Installing third party add-ons
  • 15. Moodle Networking
  • 16. Moodle Intregration
  • 17. Appendix: Configuration Settings Reference
  • Title: Moodle 3 Administration. An administrator’s guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle - Third Edition
  • Author: Alex Büchner
  • Original title: Moodle 3 Administration. An administrator’s guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle - Third Edition
  • ISBN: 9781783289721, 9781783289721
  • Date of issue: 2016-02-29
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3bmd
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing