Chapter 11. Moodle Security and Privacy
Moodle, like any other web application, has the potential to be misused. Moodle has dedicated an entire administration section to security settings, using which you can fine-tune its safety. After an overview of Moodle security, you will learn about the following topics:
Security notifications: We will learn how to set up a number of notification mechanisms that warn you about potential security issues and look at the built-in security report.
User security: We will look at access to Moodle (self-registration, guest access, protection of user details, and course contacts), Moodle passwords, security in roles, and spam prevention.
Data and content security: We will deal with potential issues in content created within Moodle, and visibility of content. You will learn how to set up a site policy and how to configure the antivirus scanner.
System security: We will discuss configuration settings (location of the dataroot directory and the cron process...
