You're reading from Moodle 4 Administration An administrator's guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801816724

Length 640 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

PHP

Tools

Moodle

Concepts

Learning Management System

Author (1):

Alex Büchner

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Installing Moodle

2. Chapter 2: Exploring the Moodle System FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Exploring Courses, Users, and Roles

4. Chapter 4: Managing Courses and Enrolments

5. Chapter 5: Managing Users, Cohorts, and Authentication

6. Chapter 6: Managing Permissions, Roles, and Capabilities

7. Chapter 7: Enhancing Moodle’s Look and Feel

8. Chapter 8: Understanding Moodle Plugins

9. Chapter 9: Configuring Educational Features

10. Chapter 10: Configuring Technical Features

11. Chapter 11: Enabling Mobile Learning

12. Chapter 12: Gaining Insights through Moodle Reporting and Analytics

13. Chapter 13: Ensuring Moodle Security

14. Chapter 14: Complying with Data Protection Regulations

15. Chapter 15: Optimizing Moodle Performance

16. Chapter 16: Avoiding Sleepless Nights – Moodle Backup and Restore

17. Chapter 17: Working with Moodle Admin Tools

18. Chapter 18: Integrating External Systems Using Moodle Web Services

19. Chapter 19: Setting Up Moodle Networking

20. Chapter 20: Supporting Multi-Tenancy

21. Index

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Appendix: Configuration Settings

Configuring collaboration tools

One of Moodle’s many advantages is its built-in support for collaboration among learners and instructors. This ranges from several collaborative course activities, such as Forum, Wiki, Glossary, and Database, the ability to run activities in group mode, and support for groupings. Additionally, there are three social tools in Moodle that have to be configured by the administrator: blogs, comments, and tags. We will discuss these in the following subsections.

Configuring blogs

The blogging mechanism provided to users in Moodle allows them to create personal and public entries and posts relating to courses.

Important note

Blogs are a means for users to express themselves either in the form of a learning journal or as a personal account of events.

As an administrator, you must ensure that Enable blogs is turned on in Site administration | General | Advanced features. Next, you should navigate to Site administration | Appearance | Blog...