Moodle Administration Essentials

Gavin Henrick, Karen Holland

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781784395476
• Auflage: 1
• Thema: Informatik
• Thema: Virtuelle Realität

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.

Moodle Administration Essentials

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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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