Table of Contents

Note: This TOC is a work in progress. Feedback and suggested improvements are welcome :-) Please use the page comments or join the discussion in the Moodle documentation forum.

About Moodle

Philosophy

• Pedagogy
• Background

Installing Moodle

• Upgrading
• Installing plugins
• Installation FAQ

Managing a Moodle site

Site registration

• Community hubs

Front page

• Front page settings
• Front page FAQ

User management

• Authentication
  • Manual accounts
  • No login
  • Email-based self-registration
  • CAS server (SSO)
  • External database authentication
  • FirstClass authentication
  • IMAP authentication
  • LDAP authentication
  • MNet
  • NNTP authentication
  • PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)
  • POP3 server
  • RADIUS authentication
  • Shibboleth
  • Authentication common settings
  • Authentication FAQ
• Editing user details
• Bulk user actions
• User pictures
• User profile fields
• User policies
• Cohorts

Roles and permissions

• Roles management (including define roles and unsupported role assignments)
• Standard roles
  • Administrator role
  • Manager role
  • Course creator role
  • Teacher role
  • Non-editing teacher
  • Student role
  • Authenticated user role
  • Guest role
• Create custom roles
  • Parent role
• User policies
• Checking permissions
• Capability overview
• Roles FAQ

Course management

• Course request
• Managing enrolment
  • Manual enrolment
  • Self enrolment
  • Cohort sync
  • Course meta link
  • Guest access
  • Category enrolments
  • External database enrolment
  • Flat file
  • IMS Enterprise
  • LDAP enrolment
  • Paypal enrolment
  • Enrolment FAQ

Site default settings

• Advanced features
• Location settings
  • Timezones
• Language settings
  • Language packs
  • Language customization
• Text editor settings
  • Spell engine
• Managing activity modules (goes to activity modules administration page)
• Managing blocks (goes to the blocks administration page)
• Managing licences
• Plagiarism prevention

Filters

• Activity names autolinking
• Algebra notation
• Convert URLS into links
• Database autolinking
• Display emoticons as images
• Email protection
• Glossary autolinking
• HTML tidy
• Multimedia plugins
• Multilanguage content
• TeX notation
• Word censorship
• Filters FAQ

Repositories

• Upload a file
• Server files
• Recent files
• Private files
• Google docs
• Youtube videos
• Flickr public
• Flickr
• Picasa
• URL Downloader
• Wikimedia
• Alfresco
• Amazon S3
• Box.net
• Dropbox
• Filesystem
• Legacy course files
• Merlot
• Webdav
• Repositories FAQ

Portfolios

• Box.net
• File download
• Flickr
• Google docs
• Picasa
• Mahara
• Portfolio FAQ

Security

• IP Blocker
• Site policies
• HTTP Security
• Module security
• Failed logins
• Anti-virus
• Security reports ( a page with links to security overview/spam cleaner/config changes in section site wide reports)

Backup

• Course backup defaults
• Course automated backup
• Backup and restore FAQ

Site appearance

• Themes
  • Theme settings
  • Theme selector
• Calendar default settings
• Blog default settings
• Navigation
• Moodle docs
• My Home
• Profile page
• Course contacts
• Ajax and javascript
• Manage tags
• Additional HTML

   Server information
       System paths
       Email
       Jabber
       Session handling
       HTTP
       Maintenance mode
       Cleanup
       Environment
       PHP info
       Performance
   Site-wide reports
       Comments
       Backups
       Course overview
       Logs
       Live logs
       Question instances
       Config changes
       Security overview
       Spam cleaner
       Statistics
   Troubleshooting
       Debugging
   Testing and developing
       XMLDB editor
       Web service test client
       Purge all caches
       Unit tests
       Functional DB tests

Managing a Moodle course

   Creating a course
   Adding users to the course (goes to course enrolment page)
       Course enrolment (describing all enrolment methods available in course - manual enrolment, self enrolment, guest access, cohort sync, course meta link - with links to more detailed enrolment info under Managing a Moodle site)
           Enrolment key
           Unenrolment
   Managing users
       Grouping users (this page includes link to cohortsync)
           Groups
           Groupings
       Notes
       Communication( a page directing readers to the /news forum/calendar/comments/messaging/tags pages)
       Editing the course (page on edit icons and directing readers to Activities/resources/blocks)
           The text editor
   Managing content
       Working with files and folders
           File handling
           File picker (links to different repos like private and legacy)

       Working with media
           Video
           Audio
           Images
           Embedding content
   Grading work
       Scales
       Outcomes
   Tracking progress
       Conditional activities
       Activity completion
       Course completion
   Year end procedures

Activities

   Assignments
       Assignment settings
       Using Assignments
       Assignments FAQ
   Chat
       Chat settings
       Using Chat
       Chat FAQ
   Choice
       Choice settings
       Using Choice
       Choice FAQ
   Database
       Database settings
       Building Database
           Database templates
           Database fields
       Using Database
       Database FAQ
   Feedback
       Feedback settings
       Using Feedback
       Feedback FAQ
   Forum
       Forum settings
           News forum
       Using Forum
       Forum FAQ
   Glossary
       Glossary settings
       Using Glossary
       Glossary FAQ
   Lesson
       Lesson settings
       Building Lesson
       Using Lesson
       Lesson FAQ
   SCORM
       SCORM settings
       Using SCORM
       SCORM FAQ
   Survey
       Survey settings
       Using Survey
       Survey FAQ
   Quiz
       Quiz settings
       Building Quiz
           Question types (should these go here? Too much info to go into one of the other pages I fear.)
       Using Quiz
       Quiz FAQ
   Wiki
       Wiki settings
       Using Wiki
       Wiki FAQ
   Workshop
       Workshop settings
       Using Workshop
       Workshop FAQ
   Blog (yes it’s not an activity but where else to add? link to Blog default settings )
       Blog settings
       Using Blog
       Blog FAQ

Resources

   File
       File settings
       Using File
       File FAQ
   Folder
       Folder settings
       Using Folder
       Folder FAQ
   IMS Content Package
       IMS CP settings
       Using IMS CP
       IMS CP FAQ
   Label
       Label settings
       Using Label
       Label FAQ
   Page
       Page settings
       Using Page
       Page FAQ
   URL
       URL settings
       Using URL
       URL FAQ

Blocks

   Activities block
   Admin bookmark
   Blog menu block
   Blog tags block
   Calendar block
   Comments block
   Community finder block
   Course completion status block
   Course overview block
   Course/site description block
   Courses block
   Feedback block
   Flickr
   Global search
   HTML block
   Latest news
   Login block
   Main menu
   Mentees block
   Messages
   My private files
   Navigation
   Network servers
   Online users
   People
   Quiz results
   Random glossary
   RSS client
   Search forums
   Section links
   Self completion
   Settings block
   Social activities
   Tags
   Upcoming events
   Youtube block

   Blocks FAQ