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Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

You're reading from   Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide Build custom plugins, extensions, modules and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786467119
Length 368 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting to Grips with the Moodle 3 Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Moodle Plugins - What Can I Plug In? 3. Internal Interfaces 4. Course Management 5. Creative Teaching - Developing Custom Resources and Activities 6. Managing Users - Letting in the Crowds 7. Creating a Dashboard - Developing a Learner Homepage 8. Creating a New Skin 9. Moodle Analytics Appendix

System APIs

Having built a basic administration plugin in the first half of this chapter, in the next we will be looking at a simple Moodle course plugin and, by doing so, investigate five more basic internal programming interfaces:

  • Events API
  • File Storage API
  • Cache API
  • Form API
  • Output API

The plugin we will be investigating in this chapter (and will continue to develop in Chapter 5, Creative Teaching - Developing Custom Resources and Activities) is an enhanced multiple choice interaction, based on the choice activity (see https://docs.moodle.org/31/en/Choice_activity).

Our instructional design (ID) colleagues who have been developing the Organizational Resilience Training Program have been working on multiple-choice questions (MCQs) that contain images in the distractors and key. The following is an extract from the storyboard:

This question is to be used as part of a face...

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