Ensuring Moodle Security

Moodle, like any other web application, has the potential to be misused. Moodle has dedicated an entire section to security settings that administrators can use to fine-tune its safety. After an overview of Moodle’s security, you will learn about the following topics:

• Security notifications: You will learn how to set up Moodle’s notification mechanisms that warn you about potential security issues and inspect the built-in security report.
• User security: We will look at the configuration of Moodle passwords, protection of user details, and spam prevention.
• Content security: We will deal with potential issues in content created within Moodle and the visibility thereof. You will learn how to restrict content created within Moodle, set up content visibility, and configure the antivirus scanner.
• System security: We will discuss configuration settings (location of the data root directory and cron execution), supporting HTTPS, and...