Moodle administration essentials : learn how to set up, maintain, and support your Moodle site efficiently / Gavin Henrick, Karen Holland.

If you are an experienced system administrator and know how to manage servers and set up web environments but now want to explore Moodle, this book is perfect for you. You'll get to grips with the basics and learn to manage Moodle quickly, focusing on essential tasks. Having prior knowledge of...

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Main Authors: Henrick, Gavin (Author), Holland, Karen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing, 2015.
Series:Community experience distilled.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Moodle in a Nutshell -- Background of Moodle -- Architecture of Moodle -- Installing Moodle -- Server specifications -- Hardware -- Software -- Code specifications -- Moodle download -- File permissions -- Database set up -- Moodledata directory set up -- Moodle installer -- Essential configurations -- Updating Moodle -- Upgrading from one version to another -- Cloning your Moodle site 
505 8 |a Upgrade preparationMoodle code directory -- Moodle data directory -- Moodle database -- Moodle download -- Maintaining version code -- When to update -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Managing User Accounts and Authentication -- Creating users -- Editing a user -- Searching for a user account -- Editing the user account -- Upload users -- Preparing the spreadsheet -- Uploading the spreadsheet -- User Authentication -- Authentication types -- How to enable authentication plugins -- Authentication configuration for single-user creation 
505 8 |a Authentication configuration for the CSV file user uploadManual authentication -- Optional configuration -- Email-based self-registration authentication -- Optional configuration -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Managing Categories and Courses -- Category creation -- Course and category management -- Course creation -- Upload courses -- Preparing the spreadsheet -- Uploading the spreadsheet -- Course templates -- Restore a course -- Clone a course -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Managing Site Appearance -- Configuring the landing page 
505 8 |a Configuring the front pageGlobal theme settings -- Introducing the Clean theme -- Configuring the Clean theme -- Introducing the More theme -- Configuring the More theme -- Cloning a theme -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Role Management -- Understanding terminologies -- Standard Roles -- Managing Role Permissions -- Cloning a role -- Creating a new role -- Creating a course requester role -- Applying a role override for a specific context -- Testing a role -- Manually adding a user to a course -- Enabling self-enrolment on a course -- Other custom roles 
505 8 |a SummaryChapter 6: Managing Site Plugins -- What are plugins? -- Where to find plugins -- Considerations when choosing a plugin -- Installing plugins -- Manually installing a plugin ZIP file -- Installing a plugin from the Moodle plugins directory -- Installing a plugin from a source control URL -- Editing plugin settings -- Updating plugins -- Uninstalling plugins -- Summary -- Chapter 7: End of Year Course Rollover -- Rollover implementation -- Backup of entire Moodle site -- Duplication of courses in the same Moodle after backups 
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