Moodle Administration
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- A complete guide for planning, installing, optimizing, customizing, and configuring Moodle
- Secure, back up, and restore your VLE
- Extending and networking Moodle
- Detailed walkthroughs and expert advice on best practices
- Checklist of over 100 common problems with solutions
Book Details
Language : EnglishPaperback : 376 pages [ 235mm x 191mm ]
Release Date : September 2008
ISBN : 1847195628
ISBN 13 : 978-1-847195-62-3
Author(s) : Alex Büchner
Topics and Technologies : All Books, Content Management (CMS), e-Learning, Moodle, Open Source
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
Alex Büchner
Sample chapters
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- Install and update Moodle on multiple platforms
- Understand the Moodle architecture and find your way around its user and administrator interfaces
- Work with large numbers of users: bulk enrolments and operations; advanced user management
- Configure courses, course categories, enrolment, and authentication mechanisms
- Assign, modify, and create roles and permissions to users
- Brand your site by changing the look & feel and creating custom themes
- Configure Moodle for accessibility, localization, and customize your module and grade/gradebook settings
- Interpret and analyze user activity, tracking statistics using Moodle's in-built monitoring facility and third-party tools like Google Analytics
- Secure user information, data, content, and the Moodle system
- Optimize Moodle for performance by fine-tuning your system parameters
- Back up and restore Moodle at course, site, and system level
- Extend Moodle through third-party add-ons—making the right choice for your needs, installing, configuring, and uninstalling add-ons
- Build a network of Moodle systems and set up Moodle with the Mahara ePortfolio and social networking system
- Improve your Moodle experience by following the tips laid down in the Moodle Health Check—a checklist of over 100 common problems with solutions
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Moodle has evolved from an academic project to the world's most popular virtual learning environment. During this evolution, its complexity has risen dramatically and so have the skills that are required to administer the system. While there is plenty of literature for Moodle course creators, there has been, with the exception of some disparate online resources, no Moodle administrator book. Until now!
This book is a complete, practical guide to administering Moodle sites. It covers how to set up Moodle in any learning environment, configuration and day-to-day admin tasks, as well as advanced options for customizing and extending Moodle.
This is a one-stop reference for any task you will ever come across when administering a Moodle site of any shape and size.
The author, who has been administering systems for over 20 years, has adopted a problem-solution approach to bring the content in line with your day-to-day operations.
Written in a clear, straightforward way with lots of screenshots and direct instructions this book will equip you with all the tools you need to set up, optimize, extend, and maintain a Moodle system. A problem-solution approach has been taken when possible to bring the content more in line with your day-to-day operations.
This book is written for technicians, systems administrators, as well as academic staff—basically anyone who has to administer a Moodle system. Whether you are dealing with a small-scale local Moodle system or a large-scale multi-site Virtual Learning Environment, this book will assist you with any administrative tasks. Some basic Moodle knowledge is helpful, but not essential.
If this isn't the right book for you, take a look at some of our other offerings below.
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- Updated for Moodle version 1.9
- Straightforward coverage of installing and using the Moodle system
- Working with Moodle features in all learning environments
- A unique course-based approach focuses your attention on designing well-structured, interactive, and successful courses
- Configure site settings, set up the front page, create user accounts, and create courses
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- No need to start from scratch! This book shows you the quickest way to start using Moodle and e-learning, by bringing your existing lesson materials into Moodle.
- Move your existing course notes, worksheets, and resources into Moodle quickly then improve your course, taking advantage of multimedia and collaboration.
- Moving marking online – no more backbreaking boxes of assignments to lug to and from school or college.
- Requires no prior knowledge of Moodle; but even experienced Moodlers will find this useful for converting 'paper' resources and face-to-face lessons into Moodle.
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- Applying your teaching techniques through Moodle
- Creative uses for Moodle's standard features
- Workarounds, providing alternative solutions
- Abundantly illustrated with screenshots of the solutions you'll build
- When and how to apply the different learning solutions
- Especially good for university and professional teachers
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- Ideas and best practices for teachers and trainers on using multimedia effectively in Moodle
- Ample screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate learning
- Covers working with TeacherTube, embedding interactive Flash games, podcasting, and more
- Create instructional materials and design students' activities around multimedia
- A step-by-step approach where the reader is taken through examples
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- Focus on the unique needs of young learners to create a fun, interesting, interactive, and informative learning environment your students will want to go on day after day
- Engage and motivate your students with games, quizzes, movies, and podcasts the whole class can participate in
- Go paperless! Put your lessons online and grade them anywhere, anytime
- Ideal for teachers new to Moodle: easy to follow and abundantly illustrated with screenshots of the solutions you'll build
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- Develop your own blocks, activities, filters, and organize your content with secure code
- Thoroughly covers key libraries of Moodle and best practices to use them
- Explore the Moodle architectural concepts, how it is structured, and how it works
- Detailed examples and screenshots for easy learning
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- Create your own Moodle theme from the graphic design stage right through to the finished complete Moodle theme
- Offers design examples and ways to create appropriate themes for different student age groups and styles
- Effective planning for creating and modifying new themes, customizing existing themes, and enhancing them further
- Clear focus on beginners with ample screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate learning
