Moodle 2.0 Administration电子书

Moodle 2 Administration

Table of Contents

Moodle 2 Administration

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Discounts

Free eBooks

Newsletters

Code Downloads, Errata and Support

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Preface

What this book covers

Part I – Getting started

Part II – Moodle configuration

Part III – Moodle maintenance

Part IV – Enhancing Moodle

Part V – Appendix

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

VLE job functions

Obligations and skill sets of a VLE administrator

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Moodle Installation

Moodle installation—an overview

Choosing the best setup

Moodle prerequisites

Hardware requirements

Software requirements

Installation in a LAMP environment

Downloading Moodle

Creating the Moodle database and the data directory

Using a hosted server

Using the command line

Creating the Moodle data directory

Running the installer script

Finalizing the installation

Setting up the cron process

Installation in a Windows environment

Installation in a Mac OS X environment

Installation via the Command Line Interface

Updating Moodle

Manual update

Creating a backup

Creating your new Moodle system

Running the update script

Updating Moodle via CLI

Updating Moodle via CVS and GIT

Summary

2. The Moodle System

Moodle architecture

The LAMP architecture

The Moodle layer

Code and data locations

Finding your way around in Moodle

Breadcrumbs

Administrator search facility

Moodle bookmarks

Moodle Docs and Help

File management

Moodle file management interface

Web host file management

File management via the File system repository

Summary

3. Courses, Users, and Roles

A high-level overview

Moodle courses

Moodle users

Moodle roles

Summary

4. Course Management

Course categories

Course categories—an overview

Managing course categories

Adding course categories

Course sub-categories

Deleting course categories

Organizing courses

Creating courses

Course requests—enabling teachers to ask for new courses

Creating courses and categories in bulk

Forms of enrolment

Internal enrolment

Manual enrolment

Self enrolment

Guest access

Cohort enrolment and synchronization

Database-driven enrolment

LDAP

External database

Flat file

IMS Enterprise file

Meta courses—sharing enrolment across courses

Enrolment with payment

PayPal

Summary

5. User Management

User profiles

Profile fields

General category

User picture category

Interests category

Optional category

Creating user-defined profile fields

Profile categories

Profile fields

Standard user actions

Browsing users

Filtering users

Bulk user actions

Manual accounts

Adding individual users

Bulk uploading and updating users and their pictures

Text file format

Required fields

Optional fields

Custom fields

Enrolment fields

Special fields

Uploading users

Setting default values and templates

Loading of data

Uploading user pictures

Manual account settings

User authentication

Common authentication settings

Email-based self-registration

LDAP server

LDAP Settings

Data field mappings

External databases

Connection settings

Data field mappings

Other authentication mechanisms

External Moodle authentication methods

Internal Moodle authentication methods

Usernames—best practice

Summary

6. Managing Permissions: Roles and Capabilities

Moodle predefined roles

Contexts

Assigning roles

System context

Course category context

Course context

Module context

Block context

User context

Front page context

Multiple roles

Capabilities

Role definitions

Modifying roles

Overriding roles

Creating custom roles

Example roles

Parent/Mentor role

Testing new roles

Roles management

Allowing roles assignments and overrides

Assigning of default roles

Moodle role assignment—best practice

Summary

7. Moodle Look and Feel

Look and feel overview

Customizing your front page

Front page settings

Arranging front page blocks

Log in from a different website

Other front page items

Front page roles

Front page filters

Front page backup and restore

Front page questions

Customizing navigation

My Moodle and Profile pages

Replacing the front page

Moodle themes

Selecting a Moodle theme

Theme types

Theme settings

Customizing themes

Theme customization basics

Accessibility

Guaranteeing accessibility through Moodle themes

Accessibility support through the Moodle editor

Screen reader support

Summary

8. Moodle Plugins

Plugins—an overview

Module plugins

Activities modules

Configuration of blocks

Configuration of filters

Moodle repositories

Internal repository plugins

External repository plugins

Data storage repositories

Application repositories

File management

Moodle portfolios

Miscellaneous plugins

Text editors

Question types and behaviours

Plagiarism prevention

Summary

9. Moodle Configuration

Collaboration

Blogs

Comments

Tags

Localization

Languages

Language packs

Language settings

Language customization

Calendric information

Calendars

Time zones

Grades and gradebook settings

Miscellaneous pedagogical settings

Communication

Synchronous communication

Instant messaging

Video conferencing

Asynchronous communication

Messaging configuration

Email configuration

Jabber configuration

Default message outputs

Support contact

RSS feeds configuration

Experimental settings

Summary

10. Moodle Reporting

Reporting overview

Moodle's reporting facilities

Live logs

Error reports

Export of logs

Course and user reports

Statistics

Statistics settings

Statistics view

Report generation

Configurable Reports

Totara report generation

Data analysis

Web Log Analyzers

Google Analytics

Miscellaneous reports

Summary

11. Moodle Security and Privacy

Security—an overview

Security notifications

Moodle notifications

Security report

User security

Access to Moodle

Self-registration

Guest access

Protection of user details

Course contacts

Moodle passwords

Security in roles

Spam prevention

Data and content security

Content created within Moodle

Visibility of content

Site policy

Antivirus

System security

Configuration security

Accessibility of dataroot

Cron process

HTTP security

IP blocker

Module security

Safe Exam Browser integration

Moodle privacy

Information stored about users

Information available to other users

Summary

12. Moodle Performance and Optimization

Performance and optimization—an overview

Moodle content

Content creation

Content volume

Content types

Moodle filter settings

Moodle system settings

Caching

Session handling

Memory management

Cron optimization

Course backups

Search settings

Module settings

Gradebook optimization

Chat optimization

Forums

Miscellaneous settings

Large logfiles

System paths

Front page courses

Roles

Moodle performance profiling and monitoring

Built-in profiling

System profiling

Summary

13. Backup and Restore

Course-level backup and restore

Course backup

Initial settings

Backup Default Values

Content-only backup versus full-course backup

Schema settings

Confirmation and review

Finalizing backup

Course restore

Restore destination

Restore settings

Backup schema

Finalizing restore

Course import

Site-level backups

Backup settings

Backup reports and notifications

Backup strategy

Drawbacks of site-level backups

System-level backups

Moodle backups

Moodle software

Moodle data

Snapshot creation

Backup and restore applications

Year-end procedure

Course templates

Summary

14. Installing Third-party Add-ons

Third-party software—an overview

Good add-ons and bad add-ons

Popular add-ons

Installing third-party add-ons

Installing the Configurable Reports plugin

Installing the Book module via GIT

Installing other add-ons

Uninstalling third-party add-ons

Summary

15. Moodle Integration viaWeb Services

Web services—an overview

Web services in Moodle

Enabling web services for external systems

Enabling web services for users

The Moodle mobile web service

Summary

16. Moodle Networking

Networking overview

Networking prerequisites and security

Required PHP extensions

Networking security

Peer-to-peer networks

Adding a peer

Peer services

Peer logs

Profile fields

Network authentication

Allowing roaming

Network servers block

Network enrolment

Moodle hubs

Integrating Mahara

Mahoodle

Mahara networking

Adding Mahara to Moodle

Mahara portfolio

Moodle Community Hub (MOOCH)

Summary

A. Configuration Settings

Configuration reference—an overview

Configuration reference—administration settings

Configuration reference—system settings

Default parameters

Optional parameters

Index