Administrator documentation: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:41, 10 April 2010

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

Some users may prefer to skip manual installation by using a pre-integrated Moodle appliance.

Security contains important security procedures for a production site
Performance for ideas on improving the speed of your installation
Manage 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.
nagios Open source software to monitor servers

Including:

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

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 == Configuration Settings ==
-*[[Site administration block]] contains configuration setting links
+*[[Site administration block]] contains most site configuration settings
-*[[Notification page]] used to update versions
+Including:
-*[[Variables]]
+*[[Front Page settings]]- initial and home page of a Moodle site
-*[[Site settings]]
+*[[Themes]] - user interface packages of XHTML and CSS controls
-*[[Themes]]
+*[[Language]] - default and additional language packs
-*[[Language]]
 *[[Activity modules administration]]
 *[[Blocks administration]]
-*[[Filters]]
+*[[Filters]] - Text and Multimedea plugins
 *[[Backup settings]]
 *[[HTML editor settings]]
 *[[Calendar settings]]
 *[[Maintenance mode]]
+*[[Notification page]] used to update versions
+*[[Site settings]] pre 1.7
+*[[Variables]] pre 1.6
 * See also: