Moodle 4 Administration: An administrator’s guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle, 4th Edition
- Length: 640 pages
- Edition: 4
- Language: English
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 2022-10-31
- ISBN-10: 1801816727
- ISBN-13: 9781801816724
- Sales Rank: #1911089 (See Top 100 Books)
A practical guide filled with over 120 infographics to help you administer Moodle for large organizations and small enterprises, updated to Moodle 4 and packed with real-world examples addressing today’s LMS needs
Key Features
- Learn how to plan, install, customize, and optimize Moodle and Moodle Workplace
- Deliver a cutting-edge learning experience in a secure and customizable environment while optimizing the Moodle environment
- Discover solutions to common problems while administering Moodle using a wide range of real-world examples
Book Description
This updated fourth edition of the classic Moodle Administration guide has been written from the ground up and covers all the new Moodle features in great breadth and depth. The topics have also been augmented with professional diagrams, illustrations, and checklists.
The book starts by covering basic tasks such as how to set up and configure Moodle and perform day-to-day administration activities. You’ll then progress to more advanced topics that show you how to customize and extend Moodle, manage authentication and enrolments, and work with roles and capabilities. Next, you’ll learn how to configure pedagogical and technical Moodle plugins and ensure your LMS complies with data protection regulations. Then, you will learn how to tighten Moodle’s security, improve its performance, and configure backup and restore procedures. Finally, you’ll gain insights on how to compile custom reports, configure learning analytics, enable mobile learning, integrate Moodle via web services, and support different types of multi-tenancy.
By the end of this book, you’ll be able to set up an efficient, fully fledged, and secure Moodle system.
What you will learn
- Get expert techniques to handle courses, categories, and enrolments in Moodle
- Manage users, cohorts, roles, and authentication in a professional manner
- Configure and manage core and third-party plugins and integrations like a pro
- Explore different levels of technical and educational configuration
- Enhance Moodle’s look and feel to create engaging user experiences and ensure compliance with your corporate branding
- Gain insights by creating powerful custom reports and learning analytics
- Ensure your Moodle or Moodle Workplace complies with the latest GDPR regulations
- Support different learning settings, including home-office based learning, mobile learning, and multi-tenancy
Who this book is for
If you’re new to Moodle or an experienced administrator, this book is for you. It’s also ideal for anyone who has to administer a Moodle system. Whether you’re dealing with a small-scale local Moodle site or a large-scale multi-site learning management system, this book will assist you with any administrative task you may encounter on your journey. Basic Moodle or Moodle Workplace knowledge will be helpful, but not essential.
Moodle 4 Administration Contributors About the author About the reviewers Preface Who is this book for LMS job functions Obligations and skill sets of an LMS administrator What this book covers Part 1: Getting Started Part 2: Courses, Users, and Roles Part 3: Enabling Learning and Teaching Part 4: Under the Bonnet Part 5 – Beyond Moodle To get the most out of this book Download the color images Conventions used Get in touch Share Your Thoughts Download a free PDF copy of this book Chapter 1: Installing Moodle Preparing your Moodle installation Choosing your best setup Fulfilling Moodle prerequisites Understanding Moodle versions Installation in a LAMP environment Downloading Moodle Creating the Moodle database Creating the Moodle data directory Running the installer script Setting up the cron process Finalizing the installation Installation via the command-line interface Updating Moodle Updating Moodle manually Updating Moodle via the CLI Update notifications Summary Chapter 2: Exploring the Moodle System Understanding the Moodle architecture The LAMP architecture Moodle Core Code and data locations Navigating Moodle as an administrator Administrator search facility Admin bookmarks Moodle Docs and help File management in Moodle Moodle file management interface Uploading files Upload limit Private files To link or to copy? File types Recycle bin Summary Chapter 3: Exploring Courses, Users, and Roles A high-level overview of core Moodle concepts Exploring Moodle courses Resources and activities Course categories Creating a Moodle course Exploring Moodle users Authentication and enrolment Adding a user account Enroling users Exploring Moodle roles Putting roles into context Defining roles Summary Chapter 4: Managing Courses and Enrolments Organizing courses into categories Providing an overview of course categories Managing course categories Creating courses Course creation workflows Creating a new course Custom course fields Course requests – enabling teachers to ask for new courses Managing courses in bulk Understanding course enrolment Internal enrolment Cohort enrolment and synchronization Database-driven enrolment Meta courses – sharing enrolment across courses Enrolment with payment Summary Chapter 5: Managing Users, Cohorts, and Authentication Understanding user profiles Profile fields Creating user-defined profile fields User preferences Performing standard user actions Browsing users Filtering users Bulk user actions Creating user accounts manually Adding individual users Bulk uploading and updating user data Uploading user pictures Managing cohorts Configuring user authentication Exploring user authentication Managing user authentication Common authentication settings Internal authentication methods External authentication methods Service provider-based authentication (OAuth 2) System authentication methods Summary Chapter 6: Managing Permissions, Roles, and Capabilities Exploring Moodle’s predefined roles Understanding contexts Assigning roles to users System context Course Category context Course context Module context Block context Front page context User context Multiple roles Understanding capabilities Role definitions Modifying roles Overriding roles Creating custom roles Roles and context management Allowing roles assignments and overrides Assigning default roles Context freezing Moodle role assignment – best practices Summary Chapter 7: Enhancing Moodle’s Look and Feel Exploring Moodle’s look and feel elements Customizing Moodle’s appearance Customizing the login Customizing the home page Customizing My courses Customizing dashboards Customizing the user profile page Customizing the header Configuring blocks The Moodle editor Enabling Moodle video and audio Media players Media recorders Creating walk-throughs with user tours Creating a tour Adding steps to your tour Importing and exporting tours Using Moodle themes Selecting a Moodle theme Understanding theme types Customizing themes Ensuring accessibility System accessibility Theme accessibility Content accessibility Summary Chapter 8: Understanding Moodle Plugins Moodle plugins – an overview The power of third-party plugins Managing third-party plugins Installing third-party add-ons Keeping plugins up to date Uninstalling third-party add-ons Good plugins and bad plugins Plugin evaluation criteria Popular plugins Organizational decisions around plugins Summary Chapter 9: Configuring Educational Features Configuring collaboration tools Configuring blogs Configuring comments Configuring tags Configuring content creation features Configuring content creation settings Configuring the content bank and H5P Configuring LTI platforms and tools Configuring filters Configuring plagiarism prevention Managing licenses Configuring grades and assessments Configuring grades and the gradebook Configuring assignments Configuring quizzes Configuring SCORM Managing skills and incentives Managing competencies Managing badges Managing certificates Summary Chapter 10: Configuring Technical Features Configuring communication tools Synchronous communication Asynchronous communication Contacting support Managing localization Languages, idiomas, 语言, and تاغللا Calendric information Managing repositories Managing portfolios Summary Chapter 11: Enabling Mobile Learning Understanding Moodle’s app plans Preparing to use the Moodle app Accessing Moodle from mobile devices Enabling the app Installing the Moodle app Authenticating on the Moodle app Configuring the Moodle app Configuring mobile features Configuring mobile notifications Configuring the mobile app policy Customizing the Moodle app’s appearance Changing the app’s login logo Changing the app’s look and feel via remote themes Configuring app banners Summary Chapter 12: Gaining Insights through Moodle Reporting and Analytics Creating custom reports with the report generator Exploring the report generator Selecting data and report sources Building reports Report audiences Scheduling reports Report generator limitations and an alternative Understanding Moodle’s logging framework Understanding events Logging and log stores Interacting with log-based reports Gathering statistics Making predictions with Moodle Analytics Setting up Moodle Analytics Creating analytics models Summary Chapter 13: Ensuring Moodle Security Moodle security – an overview Configuring security notifications Setting up Moodle notifications Inspecting security checks Ensuring user security Configuring Moodle passwords Protecting user details Preventing spam Ensuring content security Limiting content created within Moodle Setting up content visibility Configuring antivirus scanners Ensuring system security Configuring access to dataroot Protecting cron execution Configuring HTTP security Allowing and blocking IP addresses Summary Chapter 14: Complying with Data Protection Regulations Understanding Moodle privacy Designating a privacy officer Managing policies Choosing a site policy handler Creating policies Updating policies (versioning) Monitoring user agreements Dealing with minors Configuring the data registry Managing data registry categories Managing data registry purposes Assigning categories and purposes to contexts Managing data requests Data export Data deletion Summary Chapter 15: Optimizing Moodle Performance Understanding Moodle performance Optimizing Moodle feature performance Optimizing Moodle functions Optimizing Moodle activities Moodle Universal Cache (MUC) Understanding MUC Configuring and testing MUC Optimizing Moodle system performance Handling sessions Managing cron and scheduled tasks Configuring global search Setting system paths Moodle performance profiling and monitoring Performance info Tideways profiling JMeter support Summary Chapter 16: Avoiding Sleepless Nights – Moodle Backup and Restore Managing course-level backups Creating course backups Restoring course backups Importing course data Managing site-level backups Configuring automated backups Backup reports and notifications The backup strategy Managing system-level backups Moodle backups Snapshot creation Using backup and restore for alternative tasks Planning the year-end procedure Implementing course templates Summary Chapter 17: Working with Moodle Admin Tools Exploring Moodle admin tools Site admin presets Database tools Transferring your Moodle database Searching and replacing database content Moodle Adminer CLI Moosh – the Moodle Shell Summary Chapter 18: Integrating External Systems Using Moodle Web Services Understanding Moodle web services Configuring Moodle web services Enabling web services for external systems Enabling web services for users Summary Chapter 19: Setting Up Moodle Networking Understanding Moodle networking Configuring Moodle networking prerequisites Checking the required PHP extensions Enabling Moodle networking Setting up peer-to-peer networks Adding network peers Enabling MNet authentication Allowing roaming Adding the Network servers block Configuring network enrolment Setting up a Moodle hub Enabling MoodleNet Summary Chapter 20: Supporting Multi-Tenancy Understanding Moodle multi-tenancy Supporting multi-tenancy via categories Supporting multi-tenancy via a centralized code base Supporting multi-tenancy in Moodle Workplace Understanding Moodle Workplace tenants Understanding Moodle Workplace sharing entities Summary Appendix: Configuration Settings Configuration reference – an overview Configuration reference – administration settings Configuration reference – system settings Default parameters Optional parameters Index Why subscribe? 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