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Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition

You're reading from Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition An administrator's guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783289714

Length 492 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

MySQL

Concepts

Learning Management System

Author (1):

Alex Büchner

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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 Logging and Reporting

11. Moodle Security and Privacy

12. Moodle Performance and Optimization

13. Backup and Restore

14. Moodle Admin Tools

15. Moodle Integration

16. Moodle Networking

A. Configuration Settings

Index

Networking prerequisites and security

Moodle networking requires a number of additional components to be installed on your servers that deal with secure communication and safe data exchange.

Required PHP extensions

The following elements have to be installed on all Moodle servers that are participating in the network:

curl: A PHP library of calls that are specifically designed to safely fetch data from remote sites. If not installed, you have to recompile PHP and add --with curl when running configure.
openssl: The OpenSSL PHP library provides encryption functionality without the need to purchase an SSL certificate (--with openssl).
xmlrpc: A PHP library that supports remote procedure calls via XML (--with xmlrpc).

It is possible to add trusted hosts to Moodle, which allows them to execute calls via XML-RPC to any part of the Moodle API (Networking | XML-RPC hosts). This is potentially very dangerous and is only meant for developers. We will not be dealing with this functionality in this book...

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Authors (1)

Büchner

Büchner

Alex Büchner is the co-founder of the Premium Moodle and Platinum Totara partner, Synergy Learning. He has been implementing Moodle-based projects in the corporate, public, and third sectors for over two decades and has been configuring learning management systems of all shapes and sizes since their advent on the educational landscape. Alex holds a PhD in Computer Science and an MSc in Software Engineering. He has authored over 50 international publications, including five books, and is a frequent speaker on Moodle, Totara, and open-source technologies. He can be contacted on his website openumlaut

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