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Moodle Administration Essentials
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If you are an experienced system administrator and know how to manage servers and set up web environments but now want to explore Moodle, this book is perfect for you. You'll get to grips with the basics and learn to manage Moodle quickly, focusing on essential tasks. Having prior knowledge of virtual learning environments would be beneficial, but is not mandatory to make the most of this book.
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Moodle Administration Essentials
Table of Contents
Moodle Administration Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Moodle in a Nutshell
Background of Moodle
Architecture of Moodle
Installing Moodle
Server specifications
Hardware
Software
Code specifications
Moodle download
File permissions
Database setup
Moodledata directory setup
Moodle installer
Essential configurations
Email settings
System paths
Cron
Updating Moodle
Upgrading from one version to another
Cloning your Moodle site
Upgrade preparation
Moodle code directory
Moodle data directory
Moodle database
Moodle download
Maintaining the version code
When to update
Summary
2. Managing User Accounts and Authentication
Creating users
Editing a user
Searching for a user account
Editing the user account
Uploading users
Preparing the spreadsheet
Uploading the spreadsheet
User authentication
Authentication types
How to enable authentication plugins
Authentication configuration for a single user creation
Authentication configuration for the CSV file user upload
Manual authentication
The optional configuration
Email-based self-registration authentication
The optional configuration
Summary
3. Managing Categories and Courses
Category creation
Course and category management
Course creation
Uploading courses
Preparing the spreadsheet
Uploading the spreadsheet
Course templates
Restore a course
Clone a course
Summary
4. Managing Site Appearance
Configuring the landing page
Configuring the front page
Global theme settings
Introducing the Clean theme
Configuring the Clean theme
Introducing the More theme
Configuring the More theme
Cloning a theme
Summary
5. Role Management
Understanding terminologies
Standard roles
Managing role permissions
Cloning a role
Creating a new role
Creating a course requester role
Applying a role override for a specific context
Testing a role
Manually adding a user to a course
Enabling self-enrolment for a course
Other custom roles
Summary
6. Managing Site Plugins
What are plugins?
Where to find plugins
Considerations when choosing a plugin
Installing plugins
Manually installing a plugin ZIP file
Installing a plugin from the Moodle plugins directory
Installing a plugin from a source control URL
Editing plugin settings
Updating plugins
Uninstalling plugins
Summary
7. End of Year Course Rollover
Rollover implementation
Backup of the entire Moodle site
Duplication of courses in the same Moodle after backups
Resetting courses after a backup
Selecting the right approach
Course backup
Teacher permissions in course backup
Course creator permissions in course backup
Administrator permissions in course backup
Making a backup of a course
Setting up automated course backups
Course restore
Teacher permissions in course restore
Course creator permissions in course restore
Administrator permissions in course restore
Restoring a course
Course reset
Summary
8. Miscellaneous Admin Tasks
Monitoring Moodle usage
Statistics
Reports
Comments
Backups
Config changes
Course overview
Events list
Logs
Live logs
Performance overview
Question instances
Security overview
Statistics
Event monitoring rules
Spam cleaner
Performance testing
JMeter
Performance comparison
Security and resilience
Security
IP Blocker
Site policies
HTTP security
Notifications
Anti-Virus
Security overview report
General considerations
Force users to log in
Disable log in as a guest
Enable timezones
Enable cron
Debug messages
Purge all caches
Enhancing the My Home page or Dashboard
Language customization
Enabling site administrators
Enabling maintenance mode
Support contact details
Administration search box
Summary
Index
Moodle Administration Essentials
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