Installation and basic use of the Custom SQL query tool

The ability to create ad hoc queries that retrieve specific data from the Moodle database can enable you, as an educational administrator, to create monitoring tools that inform you and others on things such as the results of a test, attendance figures, and any other plethora of scenarios that you may dream up. Use of this tool will require basic SQL knowledge at the least and more advanced skills for sophisticated queries. There are many resources on the web that will help to get you started with SQL. A good place to start is www.sql.org.