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

View More author details

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

Why subscribe?

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Configuration Settings

Exploring Moodle admin tools

Moodle’s classification of what constitutes an admin tool is a little vague. When you navigate to Site administration | Plugins | Admin tools | Manage admin tools, a long list of plugins is shown:

Figure 17.2 – Moodle admin tools

We can group admin tools into the following categories:

Conversion tools: These tools are usually only applied once to migrate a feature from an old state to its current counterpart. Examples are the HTTPS conversion tool (see Chapter 13, Ensuring Moodle Security) and Multilang upgrade (see Chapter 10, Configuring Technical Features).
Database tools: These are tools to work with Moodle’s underlying database. We have dedicated an entire section to database tools in this chapter.
Development tools: These tools are aimed at Moodle programmers – for instance, Acceptance testing (Behat), PHPUnit tests, and the XMLDB editor. You came across a development tool in Chapter...