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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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Jaswant Tak Jaswant Tak
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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

Moodle Plugins - What Can I Plug In?

Having readied our development environment and explored the thought processes that support building a Moodle plugin, in this chapter we will be investigating the types of
plugin Moodle supports. Remember that the "M" in Moodle stands for modular; if there is a feature you need that Moodle doesn't support then we can build a plugin to implement it. Any aspect of the user experience can be enhanced and/or modified by a plugin. In this chapter, we will be mapping out the most common user journeys through the platform, from initial log on (authentication), through being assigned to courses (enrolment), and ultimately completion reporting.

As described in the previous chapter, we will be taking an Agile approach to plugin development, and that means we will be working with user stories (a description of what our work needs to achieve...

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