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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

By : Wild, Jaswant Tak
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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

4.5 (2)
By: Wild, Jaswant Tak

Overview of this book

The new and revamped Moodle is the top choice for developers to create cutting edge e-learning apps that cater to different user’s segments and are visually appealing as well. This book explains how the Moodle 3.x platform provides a framework that allows developers to create a customized e-learning solution. It begins with an exploration of the different types of plugin.. We then continue with an investigation of creating new courses. You will create a custom plugin that pulls in resources from a third-party repository. Then you’ll learn how users can be assigned to courses and granted the necessary permissions. Furthermore, you will develop a custom user home. At the end of the book, we’ll discuss the Web Services API to fully automate Moodle 3.x in real time.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1
Getting to Grips with the Moodle 3 Architecture
Getting to Grips with the Moodle 3 Architecture
Understanding Moodle
More on Moodle plugins
Running a local Moodle
Installing and configuring Moodle
Introducing the project
Agile software development
Version control
Moodle Internals - Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Our first plugin - a custom string manager
Summary
2
Moodle Plugins - What Can I Plug In?
Moodle Plugins - What Can I Plug In?
Managing users
Managing courses
Course content
Reporting and analytics
Look and feel
Other major plugin types
What cannot be done with plugins?
Summary
3
Internal Interfaces
Internal Interfaces
Adding configuration settings
System APIs
Summary
4
Course Management
Course Management
Course formats
Course blocks
Text filters
Summary
5
Creative Teaching - Developing Custom Resources and Activities
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Creative Teaching - Developing Custom Resources and Activities
Teaching interactions
Developing a Resource plugin
Preparing for release
Activities
Summary
6
Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds
Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds
Authentication
Summary
7
Creating a Dashboard - Developing a Learner Homepage
Creating a Dashboard - Developing a Learner Homepage
The client's requirement
Encouraging learners to start a course
Summary
8
Creating a New Skin
Creating a New Skin
Theme plugin structure
Renderers
Templates
Theme responsiveness
Summary
9
Moodle Analytics
Moodle Analytics
Reporting
Web Services
Summary
Appendix
Appendix
Testing
PHPUnit
Behat
Moodle guidelines
General guidelines
The code checking tool
C# client
Installing Visual Studio
Creating a new project
Creating a test harness
Connecting to an XML-RPC API
Decrypting data
Decompressing data
Final testing
Source control with GitHub
Installing Git
Committing changes

Preparing for release

There are two main considerations for releasing a module. The first concerns maintainability. You may understand how your plugin functions but will anyone else? Will you understand it if you need to come back to it in six months' time? Maintainability and readability go hand in hand. For more information on the coding style that is expected of you, check out https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Coding_style.

Minimising JavaScript

Another factor to consider in the Wavefront plugin is that we are including JavaScript. Both the AMD script and the third-party three.js libraries we are deploying with our module will need to be minified. Check the Moodle documentation at https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Javascript_Modules for details on how Grunt can be used to minify JavaScript.

Taking things further

Here are some more ideas for further developments to the model viewer plugin:

  1. Create a gallery of 3D models. The plugin's tables have been structured such that a model refers to an instance of...
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