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A community hub | A community hub provides a directory of courses for public use or for private communities. | ||
[[File:Community-hubs-flowchart.png|200px|thumb|left|Click to enlarge]] | |||
The diagram shows the basic idea. The systems in this diagram are: | |||
;Ordinary Moodle site: A typical Moodle site with teachers who want to download course templates and/or users who want to connect (enrol) with external communities | ;Ordinary Moodle site: A typical Moodle site with teachers who want to download course templates and/or users who want to connect (enrol) with external communities | ||
;Publishing site: A Moodle site that wants to make some of its courses available for download | ;Publishing site: A Moodle site that wants to make some of its courses available for download | ||
;Community site: A Moodle site that provides courses that are enrollable | ;Community site: A Moodle site that provides courses that are enrollable | ||
;Moodle Hub Server: A new Moodle plugin for listing registered courses that are ''downloadable'' or ''enrollable''. The default hub | ;Moodle Hub Server: A new Moodle plugin for listing registered courses that are ''downloadable'' or ''enrollable''. The default hub is at moodle.net, but there can be many others. | ||
Community Hubs in Moodle 2.0 video: | Community Hubs in Moodle 2.0 video: | ||
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# Later, any Moodle user can connect to a hub (via Community block in their site) to search and find courses they want to join. | # Later, any Moodle user can connect to a hub (via Community block in their site) to search and find courses they want to join. | ||
# They click on a link to be sent to the other site so that they can enrol there. | # They click on a link to be sent to the other site so that they can enrol there. | ||
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
* [[Hub FAQ]] | *[[Publishing a course]] | ||
* | *[[Hub administration]] | ||
*[[Hub FAQ]] | |||
*[[Community finder block]] | |||
*[[MNet]] - a Moodle network | *[[MNet]] - a Moodle network | ||
[[Category:Hub]] | |||
[[ja: コミュニティハブ]] | [[ja: コミュニティハブ]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:33, 7 October 2015
A community hub provides a directory of courses for public use or for private communities.
The diagram shows the basic idea. The systems in this diagram are:
- Ordinary Moodle site
- A typical Moodle site with teachers who want to download course templates and/or users who want to connect (enrol) with external communities
- Publishing site
- A Moodle site that wants to make some of its courses available for download
- Community site
- A Moodle site that provides courses that are enrollable
- Moodle Hub Server
- A new Moodle plugin for listing registered courses that are downloadable or enrollable. The default hub is at moodle.net, but there can be many others.
Community Hubs in Moodle 2.0 video:
<mediaplayer>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFLDOcJ3cbg</mediaplayer>
Downloadable courses
- Sites that want to publish certain courses and make them downloadable can register them with one or more hub servers.
- The hub will check the data and make sure the course zip is downloadable, caching a copy locally. The hub may also have a security process to check the download for trojan horses, bad content, etc.
- The download process may trigger the backup process on the original server if it hasn't been done already.
- Later, Moodle users (who have permissions to do so) can connect to a hub to search for downloadable courses and choose one.
- The Moodle site downloads the file and makes it available to the Moodle user so they can now continue to restore it normally.
Enrollable courses
- Sites that want to publish certain courses for the public to enrol in can register them with one or more hub (including the main one at moodle.org).
- Later, any Moodle user can connect to a hub (via Community block in their site) to search and find courses they want to join.
- They click on a link to be sent to the other site so that they can enrol there.
See also
- Publishing a course
- Hub administration
- Hub FAQ
- Community finder block
- MNet - a Moodle network