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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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System-level backups

System-level backups cannot be configured or executed from within Moodle. Instead, they will have to be set up on the system (shell) level. If your system is hosted externally, there is a possibility that you will not have access to the system level, which will prevent you from performing this type of backup. Unless the host already runs system-level backups on your behalf, it is time to change to another provider!

There are two types of system backups that are not mutually exclusive:

  • Moodle backups: These create an archive of Moodle itself, the course content, and user data.
  • Snapshots: These create an image of the system, which is used for disaster recovery purposes, that is, if the system has to be rolled back in its totality.

Moodle backups

Moodle distinguishes between the application software itself and the data that is stored in it. The advantage of this separation becomes apparent when creating backups: a software backup is only required when an update has been installed...

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