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Moodle Administration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2008
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847195623
Length 376 pages
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Moodle Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
1. Preface
1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Moodle Installation 3. The Moodle System 4. Course Management 5. User Management 6. Roles and Permissions 7. Moodle: Look and Feel 8. Moodle Configuration 9. Monitoring User Activity 10. Moodle Security 11. Moodle Performance and Optimization 12. Backup and Restore 13. Installing Third-Party Add-Ons 14. Moodle Networking Moodle Health Check Configuration Settings Reference Index

Customizing Your Front Page


The appearance of Moodle's front page changes after a user has logged in. The content and layout of the page before and after login can be customized to represent the identity of your organization.

Look at the following screenshot. It is the same site that the preceding screenshot was taken from, but before a user has logged in. In this particular example, a Login block is shown on the left and the Course categories are displayed in the center, as opposed to the list of available courses:

Front Page Settings

To customize the front page, you either have to be logged in as Moodle administrator, or have front-page-related permissions in the Front Page context. From the Site Administration block, select Front Page | Front Page Settings. The screen showing all available parameters will be loaded displaying your current settings that are changeable:

Setting

Description

Full site name

This is the name that appears in the browser's title bar. It is usually the...

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