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Customize your Moodle 3.x app.

Leverage the new features of Moodle 3.x by diving deep into the Moodle development eco-system.

Cater to heavy user traffic, customize learning requirements and create custom third party plugins.

Description

The new and revamped Moodle is the top choice for developers to create cutting edge e-learning apps that cater to different user’s segments and are visually appealing as well. This book explains how the Moodle 3.x platform provides a framework that allows developers to create a customized e-learning solution. It begins with an exploration of the different types of plugin.. We then continue with an investigation of creating new courses. You will create a custom plugin that pulls in resources from a third-party repository. Then you’ll learn how users can be assigned to courses and granted the necessary permissions. Furthermore, you will develop a custom user home. At the end of the book, we’ll discuss the Web Services API to fully automate Moodle 3.x in real time.

Who is this book for?

This book is for Moodle developers who are familiar with the basic Moodle functionality and have an understanding of the types of scenarios in which the Moodle platform can be usefully employed. You must have medium-level PHP programming knowledge. You should be familiar with HTML and XML protocols. You do not need to have prior knowledge of Moodle-specific terminology

What you will learn

• Work with the different types of custom modules that can be written for Moodle 3.x

• Understand how to author custom modules so they conform to the agreed Moodle 3.x development guidelines

• Get familiar with the Moodle 3.x architecture—its internal and external APIs

• Customize Moodle 3.x so it can integrate seamlessly with third-party applications of any kind

• Build a new course format to specify the layout of a course

• Implement third-party graphics libraries in your plugins

• Build plugins that can be themed easily

• Provide custom APIs that will provide the means to automate Moodle 3 in real time

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Michael Ford Aug 23, 2017

A guide to Moodle development is long overdue but the author has nailed it! I found the book well-written, thorough and very practical. The author's technical and educational expertise shine through and he's generous with insights not easily found on Moodle docs. In fact, the book has many parallels to Moodle as a learning platform, offering collaborative learning experiences while pulling together useful resources where required.The first chapter is about setting up. We're given a brief explanation of how to set up the development environment, an introduction to agile software methodology, to object orientated programming and to Moodle itself. Once prepared, we’re given our first client requirements and we’re then guided through the research, development and implementation of a working solution.Going through the book, the requirements get increasingly more complex and the explanations more detailed. In each case, we end up with a working solution as well as suggestions on how this might be further developed. I found the customised authentication plugin and the learning analytics particularly relevant. However, as the author also uses these projects to give us a thorough tour of Moodle functionality, there'll be something here for almost everybody.On the resources side, links to further reading are offered throughout the book, and the appendix is particularly worth checking - Behat, unit testing, coding standards, XML-RPC, encryption, compression, and GIT among other topics.Finally, the author's enthusiasm is infectious. I haven't coded for a while but I've been inspired. This is a book worth making space for.

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Client d'Amazon Apr 26, 2018

Dès le premier chapitre, le livre est intéressant et vous permet de mieux comprendre l'outil et sa structure.Et d'être productif. Après une journée on est capable de réaliser des plug-ins... je dis chapeaux l'auteur.

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