Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Moodle Installation
Chapter 3: The Moodle System
Chapter 4: Course Management
Chapter 5: User Management
Chapter 6: Roles and Permissions
Chapter 7: Moodle: Look and Feel
Chapter 8: Moodle Configuration
Chapter 9: Monitoring User Activity
Chapter 10: Moodle Security
Chapter 11: Moodle Performance and Optimization
Chapter 12: Backup and Restore
Chapter 13: Installing Third-Party Add-Ons
Chapter 14: Moodle Networking
Appendix A: Moodle Health Check
Appendix B: Configuration Settings Reference
Index
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Moodle's Rationale
- Moodle Overview
- The Moodle Model
- The Moodle Development Model
- The Moodle Business Model
- Moodle Usage
- VLE Administration
- VLE Job Functions
- Obligations and Skill Sets of a VLE Administrator
- Moodle Administration
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Moodle Installation
- Moodle Installation: An Overview
- What is the Best Setup for Me?
- 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
- Updating Moodle
- Manual Update
- Creating a Backup
- Creating New Moodle System
- Running the Update Script
- Update via CVS
- Manual Update
- Summary
- Moodle Installation: An Overview
- Chapter 3: 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 FTP
- File Management via WebDAV
- WebDAV Prerequisites
- Setting up WebDAV
- Using WebDAV from Windows
- Summary
- Moodle Architecture
- Chapter 4: Course Management
- Course Categories
- Course Categories Overview
- Managing Course Categories
- Adding Course Categories
- Course Sub-Categories
- Deleting Course Categories
- Organizing Courses
- Creating Courses
- Meta Courses—Sharing Enrolment across Courses
- Course Requests—Enabling Teachers to Ask for New Courses
- Forms of Enrolment
- Internal Enrolment
- Database-driven Enrolment
- LDAP
- External Database
- Flat File
- IMS Enterprise File
- Enrolment with Payment
- PayPal
- Authorize.net Payment Gateway
- Summary
- Course Categories
- Chapter 5: User Management
- Authentication Versus Enrolment
- User Profiles
- Profile Fields
- Category "General"
- Category "Picture of"
- Category "Interests"
- Category "Optional"
- Creating User-Defined Profile Fields
- Profile Categories
- Profile Fields
- Profile Fields
- Standard User Actions
- Browsing Users
- Filtering Users
- Bulk User Actions
- Manual Accounts
- Adding Individual Users
- Bulk-Uploading of Users and Their Pictures
- Text File Format
- Uploading Users
- Setting Default Values and Templates
- Loading of Data
- Uploading User Pictures
- Self-Registration
- User Authentication
- Common Authentication Settings
- Manual Account Settings
- Self-Registration Settings
- LDAP Server Settings
- LDAP Server and Bind Settings
- User Lookup Settings
- Password-Related Settings
- Miscellaneous LDAP Settings
- Data Field Mappings
- External Database Settings
- Connection Settings
- Data Field Mappings
- Other Authentication Mechanisms
- External Moodle Authentication Methods
- Internal Moodle Authentication Methods
- Username–Best Practices
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Roles and Permissions
- Moodle's PreDefined Roles
- Contexts
- Assignment of Roles
- Time for some action: Assigning Roles
- Hiding Role Assignments
- Time-Limited Role Assignments
- System Context
- Course Category Context
- Course Context
- Module Context
- Block Context
- User Context
- Front Page Context
- Multiple Roles
- Time for some action: Assigning Roles
- Capabilities and Permissions
- Role Definitions
- Resolving Permission Conflicts
- Permission Risks
- Modifying Roles
- Overriding Roles
- Creating Custom Roles
- Example Roles
- Parent or Mentor Role
- Testing New Roles
- Role Definitions
- Roles Management
- Allowing Roles Assignments and Overrides
- Assignment of Default Roles
- Assigning Front Page Roles
- Roles—Best Practice
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Moodle: Look and Feel
- Look and Feel: An Overview
- Customizing Your Front Page
- Front Page Settings
- Arranging Front Page Blocks
- Login From a Different Website
- Other Front Page Items
- Front Page Roles
- Front Page Backup and Restore
- Front Page Questions
- Site Files
- Allow Personalization via My Moodle
- Making Blocks Sticky
- Moodle Themes
- Selecting a Moodle Theme
- Theme Types
- Theme Settings
- Creating Your Own Theme
- Theme Creation Basics
- Moodle Theme Styles
- Theme Design and Development
- Look and Feel: Good Practice
- Consistency
- Supporting Different Browsers
- Guaranteeing Accessibility
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Moodle Configuration
- Accessibility
- Accessibility Supported by the Moodle Editor
- Screen Reader Support
- Localization
- Languages
- Language Packs
- Language Settings
- Language Editing
- Calendaric Information
- Calendars
- Time Zones
- Languages
- Module Configuration
- Configuration of Activities
- Configuration of Blocks
- Configuration of Filters
- Grades and Gradebook Settings
- Miscellaneous Settings
- Editing Options
- Tags
- Experimental
- Summary
- Accessibility
- Chapter 9: Monitoring User Activity
- Monitoring Overview
- Reporting
- Live Logs
- Error Reports
- Exporting of Logs
- Tracking
- Statistics
- Statistics Settings
- Statistics View
- Web Log Analyzers
- Google Analytics
- Privacy and Data Protection Issues
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Moodle Security
- Security Overview
- Security Notifications
- User Security
- Access to Moodle
- Self-Registration
- Guest Access
- Protection of User Details
- Course Managers
- Moodle Passwords
- Security in Roles
- Role Definitions
- Default Roles
- Access to Moodle
- 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
- Module Security
- Configuration Security
- Summary
- Chapter 11: Moodle Performance and Optimization
- Performance and Optimization Overview
- Moodle Content
- Content Creation
- Content Volume
- Content Types
- Moodle System Settings
- Path Settings
- Caching Settings
- Module Settings
- Gradebook Optimization
- Chat Optimization
- Forums
- Miscellaneous Settings
- Language-Related Settings
- Large Log files
- Filter Settings
- Search Settings
- Course Backups
- Cron Optimization
- Roles
- Moodle Performance Profiling and Monitoring
- Summary
- Chapter 12: Backup and Restore
- Course-Level Backup and Restore
- Course Backup
- Backup Options
- Content-Only versus Full-Course Backups
- Finalizing Backup
- Course Restore
- Course Import
- Course Backup
- Site-Level Backups
- Backup Settings
- Backup Strategy
- Drawbacks of Site-Level Backups
- System-Level Backups
- Moodle Backup
- Moodle Software
- Moodle Data
- Snapshot Creation
- Moodle Backup
- Summary
- Course-Level Backup and Restore
- Chapter 13: 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 Feedback Module
- Installing Other Add-Ons
- Uninstalling Third-Party Add-Ons
- Summary
- Chapter 14: Moodle Networking
- Networking Overview
- Networking Prerequisites and Security
- Required PHP Extensions
- Networking Security
- Peer-To-Peer Networks
- Adding a Peer
- Peer Services
- Peer Themes
- Peer Logs
- Network Authentication
- Allow Roaming
- Network Server Block
- Network Enrolment
- Networking Enrolment Plug-In
- Network Enrolment Service
- Adding a Peer
- Community Hubs
- Mahara Integration
- Mahoodle!
- Mahara Networking
- Adding Mahara to Moodle
- Summary
- Appendix A: Moodle Health Check
- Moodle Health Check: Performance
- Moodle Health Check: Security
- Functionality
- Core Functionality
- Accessibility
- System
- Operating System
- Database
- PHP
- Web Server
- Appendix B: Configuration Settings Reference
- Configuration Reference: An Overview
- Configuration Reference: Administration Settings
- Configuration Reference: System Settings
- Compulsory Parameters
- Optional Parameters
- Configuration Reference: Theme Settings
