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Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition

Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition

By : Büchner
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Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition

Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition

3.9 (9)
By: Büchner

Overview of this book

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.
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Installation in a Mac OS X environment

MAMP is a free distribution that contains Apache (and Nginx), MySQL, and PHP for Mac OS X. Like its Windows counterpart, the Moodle distributions for Mac OS X (10.4 or higher) are only intended for local installations and not for production environments. There is also a link on the download site for Mac server installation.

Moodle4Mac is available as universal binaries using MAMP, which is located at https://download.moodle.org/macosx. Once downloaded, follow these steps:

  1. Double-click on the downloaded DMG file to start the installation. This will open a screen as follows, which explains the remainder of the installation process:
    Installation in a Mac OS X environment
  2. Drag the MAMP folder on this screen onto the Applications icon, which will copy the Moodle system and its required components.
  3. Open the MAMP folder in Applications, where you will find the following relevant icons:
    Installation in a Mac OS X environment
  4. Double-click on the MAMP.app icon and start servers (Apache and MySQL).You can configure MAMP to automatically start the two servers in the preferences:
    Installation in a Mac OS X environment
  5. Double-click on the LinktoMoodle30 icon, which opens your Moodle instance on your localhost in your default web browser.

And that's it! An installation cannot be easier than that! You don't even have to go through the installation process. Moodle is already preconfigured, and you are ready to go.

The default password for the admin account is 12345, which you should change in the user profile.

Installation in a Mac OS X environment

The MAMP folder also includes a shell script called UpdateMoodle30.sh (this requires Git to be installed—see the Updating Moodle section discussed later). When you double-click on the file, the script will be executed to download the latest version of Moodle and install it on your Mac. On all other operating systems, you will have to go through a more cumbersome update process, which is described further.

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