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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henrick, Gavin, author.

Holland, Karen, author.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community Experience Distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer-assisted instruction--Computer programs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Computer-assisted instruction.

Open source software--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Open source software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (156 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 virtual learning environments would be beneficial, but is not mandatory to make the most of this book.

Contents:

""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""

""Upgrade preparation""""Moodle 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""

""Authentication configuration for the CSV file user upload""""Manual 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""

""Configuring the front page""""Global 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""

""Summary""""Chapter 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""

""Resetting courses after backup""

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 4, 2015).

ISBN:

9781784393182

1784393185

OCLC:

915155977