Administrator documentation

The purpose of this page is to list useful links by general topics for administrators of a Moodle site.

Installation & Upgrading

• Installation Quickstart for an overview of the installation steps
• Installing Moodle for detailed installation instructions
• Installation FAQ
• Options for installing Apache, MySQL and PHP
• Upgrading Moodle
• Installing contributed modules or plugins

System-specific Instructions & Packages

Unix/Linux-based

• Automated Installation Guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 operating system
• Step-by-step Installation Guide for RedHat operating system
• Step-by-step Installation Guide for Debian GNU/Linux operating system
• Step-by-step Install Guide for Ubuntu
• Step-by-step Install Guide for Ubuntu using apt-get
• Step-by-step Install Guide for Zenwalk-5.0
• Step-by-step Installation Guide for the One Laptop per Child XS Server (Beta)
• Step-by-step Install Guide for Solaris 10 with Oracle 10

Windows

• Windows installations with instructions for Windows NT/2000/2003 servers
• Windows installation using XAMPP: Apache, MySQL and PHP
• MoodleAnywhere another Windows installation package
• Installing Moodle on Windows Vista - how to

Mac

• Complete Install Packages for Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5
• Step by Step Installation on a Mac OS X 10.4 Client using the internal web server
• Step by step Installation on a Mac OS X 10.5 Server

Web Hosts

• Installation on 1and1 web hosting
• Step-by-step Installation on Powweb web hosting

Database

• Installing Oracle for PHP
• Installing MSSQL for PHP
• Installing Postgres for PHP

Security, Performance and Roles

• Security contains important security procedures for a production site
• Performance and optimization for ideas on improving the speed of your installation
• Managing roles For Moodle 1.7 and later.
• Reducing spam in Moodle
• suhosin is an advanced protection system for PHP installation. It was designed to protect servers and users from known and unknown flaws in PHP applications and the PHP core.

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FAQs

• Installation FAQ
• Beginning Administration FAQ
• Administration FAQ
• Backup and restore FAQ
• Errors FAQ

Configuration Settings

• Site administration block contains configuration setting links
• Notification page used to update versions
• Variables
• Site settings
• Themes
• Language
• Activity modules administration
• Blocks administration
• Filters
• Backup settings
• HTML editor settings
• Calendar settings
• Maintenance mode

• See also:
  • Comparison between configuration settings in Moodle 1.6 & 1.7

User Management

• Authentication
• Add a new user - on a site
• Upload users - from a file to a site, and into existing course and group, some existing user global updates
• User_profile_fields
• Enrolment plugins
  • Flat file - enrol existing users in a course
• Assigning user a role - typical assignments include:
  • Enrol students in a course
  • Unenrolment Student
  • Assign teachers - to a course
  • Assign course creators - in a site
  • Assign administrators - in a site

Other

• Courses and course formats
• Reports (administrator) and Logs
• Site files
• Database
• Environment
• Moodle Network and Moodle Community hub
• Streaming Media
• Case studies (administrator)
• Anti-virus
• System Monitoring and Server Statistic Software
• Integrate Moodle, LDAP and SIMS.net
• How to rebuild context paths
• Hacking the Moodle 2.0 database transfer script to convert a Moodle 1.9 site

See also

• Index of all Administrator-related pages
• Integrations
• CVS for Administrators
• Email processing
• Search engine optimization
• Messaging
• Migration
• Metacourses
• Block layout
• Customizing Moodle
• Administrator do's and don'ts
• Using Moodle book Chapter 16: Moodle Administration
• Administration hacks