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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783289714
Length 492 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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

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After providing a general overview of the elements involved in the look and feel of Moodle, this chapter covered the front page and theme customizations of Moodle as well as editor configuration and accessibility. We also dealt with supporting mobile devices. Read more about all of these in Chapter 16, Moodle Networking, when we cover web services, which allow the usage of your site with the help of dedicated mobile apps.

As mentioned earlier, the front page in Moodle is a course. This has advantages (you can do everything that you can do in a course and a little bit more), but it also has drawbacks (you can only do the same things that you do in a course and might feel limited by this). However, some organizations are now using Moodle's front page as their main home page. Again, this might or might not work for you.

Now that your Moodle looks (hopefully) the way you want it to, it is time to enable all the functionalities that you wish to offer your users. Plugins and configuration...

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