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Moodle 4 Administration

Moodle 4 Administration

By : Alex Büchner
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Moodle 4 Administration

Moodle 4 Administration

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By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

This updated fourth edition of the classic Moodle Administration guide has been written from the ground up and covers all the new Moodle features in great breadth and depth. The topics have also been augmented with professional diagrams, illustrations, and checklists. The book starts by covering basic tasks such as how to set up and configure Moodle and perform day-to-day administration activities. You’ll then progress to more advanced topics that show you how to customize and extend Moodle, manage authentication and enrolments, and work with roles and capabilities. Next, you'll learn how to configure pedagogical and technical Moodle plugins and ensure your LMS complies with data protection regulations. Then, you will learn how to tighten Moodle’s security, improve its performance, and configure backup and restore procedures. Finally, you'll gain insights on how to compile custom reports, configure learning analytics, enable mobile learning, integrate Moodle via web services, and support different types of multi-tenancy. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to set up an efficient, fully fledged, and secure Moodle system.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Summary

In this chapter, we learned the basics about Moodle plugins. We first provided an overview of plugins, before covering the essentials of managing third-party Moodle add-ons. Plugin management comprised installation, update, and removal; for each operation, we offered four methods: web interface, manual, Git, and command line.

After that, we offered some advice on good plugins and not-so-good plugins. We provided some plugin evaluation criteria you might want to apply, presented some popular plugins, and gave you a list of organizational decisions you should take into account.

You’ve hopefully experienced a flavor of the breadth and depth of additional functionalities available for Moodle. It demonstrates the extensibility and significant benefit of open source software, that is, programmatically enhancing a system to a user’s requirements. The consistent manner in which plugins have been implemented demonstrates the modular architecture of Moodle and flattens...

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