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Moodle 2 Administration

You're reading from   Moodle 2 Administration Moodle is the world’s most popular virtual learning environment and this book will help systems administrators and technicians administer the system effectively. Based on real-world scenarios with plenty of screenshots, it’s an essential practical gui

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516044
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Moodle 2 Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. PacktLib.PacktPub.com
3. Preface
1. Moodle Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. The Moodle System 3. Courses, Users, and Roles 4. Course Management 5. User Management 6. Managing Permissions: Roles and Capabilities 7. Moodle Look and Feel 8. Moodle Plugins 9. Moodle Configuration 10. Moodle Reporting 11. Moodle Security and Privacy 12. Moodle Performance and Optimization 13. Backup and Restore 14. Installing Third-party Add-ons 15. Moodle Integration via Web Services 16. Moodle Networking Configuration Settings

Moodle courses


Moodle manages activities and stores resources in courses, and this is where learning and collaboration takes place. Courses themselves belong to categories, which are organized hierarchically, similar to folders on our local hard drive. Moodle comes with a default category called Miscellaneous, which is sufficient to show the basics of courses. We deal with categories in more detail in the dedicated chapter, Chapter 4, Course Management.

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Moodle is a course-centric system.

To begin with, let us create the first course. To do so, go to Courses | Add/edit courses. Here, you will see the Miscellaneous category. Select the Add a new course button and you will be directed to the screen where course details have to be entered. For now, let us focus on the two compulsory fields, namely Course full name and Course short name. The former is displayed at various places in Moodle, whereas the latter is used to identify the course and is also shown in the breadcrumb trail.

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