Moodle 3 administration : an administrator's guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle / Alex B�uchner.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2016).

Includes index.

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Moodle Installation; Chapter 2: The Moodle System; Chapter 3: Courses, Users, and Roles; Chapter 4: Course Management; Chapter 5: User Management; Chapter 6: Managing Permissions -- Roles and Capabilities; Chapter 7: Moodle Look and Feel; Chapter 8: Moodle Plugins; Chapter 9: Moodle Configuration; Chapter 10: Moodle Logging and Reporting; Chapter 11: Moodle Security and Privacy; Chapter 12: Moodle Performance and Optimization; Chapter 13: Backup and Restore.

Chapter 14: Moodle Admin ToolsChapter 15: Moodle Integration; Chapter 16: Moodle Networking; Appendix: Configuration Settings; Index; Moodle installation -- an overview; Installation in a LAMP environment; Installation in a Windows environment; Installation in a Mac OS X environment; Installation via the Command Line Interface; Updating Moodle; Summary; Moodle architecture; Finding your way around in Moodle; File management; Summary; A high-level overview; Moodle courses; Moodle users; Moodle roles; Summary; Course categories; Creating courses; Forms of enrolment; Summary; User profiles.

Standard user actionsManual accounts; Cohorts; User authentication; Usernames -- best practice; Summary; Moodle predefined roles; Contexts; Assigning roles; Capabilities; Roles management; Summary; An overview of the look and feel; Site versus Dashboard; Customizing your front page; Moodle themes; The Moodle editor; Accessibility; Summary; Plugins -- an overview; Module plugins; Moodle repositories; Moodle portfolios; Miscellaneous plugins; Installing third-party plugins; Good add-ons and bad add-ons; Summary; Collaboration; Configuring and managing badges.

Supporting the LTI consumers and producersLocalization; Grades and gradebook settings; Miscellaneous educational settings; Communication; Experimental settings; Summary; Moodle's logging framework; An overview of reporting; Moodle's reporting facilities; Statistics; Report generation; Data analysis; Miscellaneous reports; Summary; Security -- an overview; Security notifications; User security; Data and content security; System security; Moodle privacy; Summary; An overview of performance and optimization; The Moodle content; Moodle Universal Cache; The Moodle system settings.

Moodle performance profiling and monitoringSummary; The course-level backup and restore; Site-level backups; System-level backups; Uses of backup and restore; Summary; Web-based admin tools; Moosh -- the Moodle shell; Moodle Adminer; Summary; Web services overview; Web services in Moodle; Enabling web services for external systems; Enabling web services for users; The Moodle mobile web service; Summary; Networking overview; Networking prerequisites and security; Peer-to-peer networks; Moodle hubs; Integrating Mahara or Totara Social; The Moodle Community Hub (Moodle.net); Summary.

This book is ideal for 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 task. Some basic Moodle knowledge is helpful, but not essential.

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