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
• Moodle site - basic structure
• Moodle key terms

Installing Moodle

• Upgrading
• Installing plugins
• Installation FAQ

Managing a Moodle site

Authentication

• Managing 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 FAQ

Managing accounts

• Browse list of users
• Bulk user actions
• Add a new user
• Upload users
• User pictures
• User profile fields

Enrolments

• Managing enrolment plugins
• 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

Roles and permissions

• Managing roles
• Roles settings
• Using roles
• Standard roles
  • Site administrator
  • Manager role
  • Course creator role
  • Teacher role
  • Non-editing teacher role
  • Student role
  • Guest role
  • Authenticated user role
• Creating custom roles
• Permissions
• Override permissions
• Roles FAQ

Other

• Course request
• Community hubs

Site default settings

• Advanced features
• Location settings
  • Timezones
• Language settings
  • Language packs
  • Language customization
• Text editor settings
  • Spell engine
• Managing licences

Security

• Security recommendations
• Security overview report
• Site policies
• Password salting
• Moodle security procedures
• Increasing privacy
• Security FAQ

Performance

• Performance recommendations
• Performance settings
• Performance FAQ

Backup

• Site backup
• Course backup
• Course restore
• Automated course backup
• Year-end procedures
• Backup and restore FAQ

Site appearance

• Front page
  • Front page settings
  • Front page FAQ
• Navigation
• Course list
• Themes
  • Theme settings
  • Standard themes
  • Installing a new theme
• Header and footer

Language

• Language settings
• Language customization
• Language packs
• Language FAQ

Server settings

• System paths
• Session handling
• HTTP
• Maintenance mode
• Cleanup
• Environment
• Site registration

Site-wide reports

• Config changes report
• Course overview report
• Question instances report
• Reports FAQ

Developer tools

• Experimental settings
• Debugging

More features

• Blogs
  • Blog settings
  • Using Blogs
  • Blogs FAQ
• Comments
  • Comments FAQ
• Tags
  • Tag settings
  • Using tags
  • Managing tags
  • Tags FAQ
• Messaging
  • Messaging FAQ
• Notes
  • Notes FAQ
• RSS feeds
  • RSS feeds FAQ
• Calendar
  • Calendar settings
  • Using Calendar
  • Calendar FAQ

Managing a Moodle course

Creating a course

• Course settings
• Course formats
• Course homepage
• Course FAQ

Editing text

• Text editor
• Formatting text
• Text editor FAQ

Activities

• Managing activities
• Assignments
  • Assignment settings
  • Using Assignment
  • Assignment 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
  • 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
  • Using Quiz
  • Quiz FAQ
• Wiki
  • Wiki settings
  • Using Wiki
  • Wiki FAQ
• Workshop
  • Workshop settings
  • Using Workshop
  • Workshop FAQ

Resources

• File
  • File module settings
  • Using File
  • File FAQ
• Folder
  • Folder module settings
  • Using Folder
  • Folder FAQ
• IMS content package
  • IMS content package settings
  • Using IMS content package
  • IMS content package FAQ
• Label
  • Label module settings
  • Using Label
  • Label FAQ
• Page
  • Page module settings
  • Using Page
  • Page FAQ
• URL
  • URL module settings
  • Using URL
  • URL FAQ

Blocks

• Managing blocks
• Block settings
• Activities block
• Admin bookmarks block
• 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
• Flickr block
• HTML block
• Latest news block
• Login block
• Logged in user block
• Main menu block
• Mentees block
• Messages block
• My private files block
• Navigation block
• Network servers block
• Online users block
• People block
• Quiz results block
• Random glossary entry block
• Recent activity block
• Remote RSS feeds block
• Search forums block
• Section links block
• Self completion block
• Settings block
• Social activities
• Tags block
• Upcoming events block
• Youtube block
• Blocks FAQ

Questions

• Managing questions
  • Question bank
  • Question categories
  • Import questions
  • Export questions
• Calculated
• Simple Calculated
• Calculated Multichoice
• Description
• Essay
• Matching
• Embedded Answers (Cloze)
• Multiple Choice
• Short-Answer
• Numerical
• Random Short-Answer Matching
• True/False
• Questions FAQ

Course enrolment

• Enrolled users
• Enrolment methods
• Enrolment key
• Unenrolment

Grouping users

• Groups
• Import groups
• Groupings
• Cohorts
• Groups FAQ
• Groupings FAQ

Tracking progress

• Grades
  • Gradebook
  • Grade settings
  • Managing grades
  • Scales
  • Outcomes
  • Grade letters
  • Grade import
  • Grade export
  • Grades FAQ
• Conditional activities
  • Conditional activities settings
  • Using Conditional activities
  • Conditional activities FAQ
• Activity completion
  • Activity completion settings
  • Using Activity completion
  • Activity completion FAQ
• Course completion
  • Course completion settings
  • Using Course completion
  • Course completion FAQ
• Course reports

Reusing activities

• Activity backup
• Activity restore
• Import course data
• Reset course

Managing content

Working with files

• File picker
• File picker FAQ

Repositories

• Managing repositories
• Upload a file repository
• Server files repository
• Recent files repository
• Private files
• Google Docs repository
• Youtube videos repository
• Flickr public repository
• Flickr repository
• Picasa web album repository
• URL downloader repository
• Wikimedia repository
• Alfresco repository
• Amazon S3 repository
• Box.net repository
• Dropbox repository
• File system repository
• Legacy course files
• Merlot.org repository
• WebDAV repository
• Repositories FAQ

Portfolios

• Managing portfolios
• Box.net portfolio
• File download
• Flickr
• Google Docs portfolio
• Picasa
• Mahara
• Portfolios FAQ

Working with media

• Video
• Audio
• Images
• Embedding content
• Media FAQ

Filters

• Managing filters
• Filter settings
• Activity names auto-linking
• Algebra notation
• Convert URLs into links filter
• Database auto-linking filter
• Display emoticons as images filter
• Email protection filter
• Glossary auto-linking filter
• HTML tidy filter
• Multimedia plugins filter
• Multi-language content filter
• TeX notation filter
• Word censorship filter
• Filters FAQ

Plagiarism prevention

• Managing plagiarism prevention
• Plagiarism prevention FAQ