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

Working with Moodle Admin Tools

Moodle ships with several administration tools that have not been allocated to a particular topic; some are not even directly accessible via the familiar admin web interface.

Figure 17.1 – Moodle admin tools

We have grouped the admin tools into the following categories, each presented in a separate section:

Site admin presets: Presets allow you to create backups of site settings that can be rolled back in case something goes wrong.
Database tools: These tools let you apply specific database actions. In addition to the tools part of Moodle core, we will cover a useful external tool called Adminer that lets you manage the underlying database directly from within Moodle.
Command Line Interface (CLI): The CLI is a built-in mechanism that allows us to automate administrative processes via the command line or shell scripts.
Moosh: A powerful alternative to the CLI, Moosh is the third-party Moodle Shell....