Administrator documentation

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

Installation & Upgrading

• Installation Quickstart for an overview of the installation steps
• Installing Moodle for detailed installation instructions
• Installation FAQ
• Installing Apache, MySQL and PHP
• Upgrading Moodle

System-specific Instructions & Packages

• 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
• Windows installation Complete Install Packages for Windows XP PCs and instructions for Windows NT/2000/2003 servers
• Complete Install Packages for Mac OS X
• Step-by-Step Guide for Installing Moodle using the internal web server on Mac OS X 10.4 Client
• Step-by-step Install Guide for Ubuntu

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

FAQs

• Installation FAQ
• Administration FAQ
• Backup FAQ

Configuration Settings

• Variables
• Site settings
• Themes
• Language
• Modules
• Blocks
• Filters
• Backup
• Editor settings
• Calendar
• Maintenance mode

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

User Management

• Authentication
• Edit user accounts
• Add a new user
• Upload users
• Enrolment plugins
• Enrol students
• Assign teachers
• Assign creators
• Assign administrators

Other

• Courses and course formats
• Logs
• Site files
• Database
• Environment
• Moodle Network and Moodle Community Hub

See also

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