Administrator documentation: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:34, 8 March 2011

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

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
Installing Moodle on Windows Server 2008 x86
Installing Moodle on Windows Server 2008 R2
Implementing Moodle on a Windows High Availability Environment Implementing Moodle 1.9 on 2 Microsoft Load Balanced Web Front End Server and a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster environment

Moodle 2

Mac

Web Hosts

Appliances

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

Database

Plugins

Installing contributed modules or plugins

Security, Performance and Roles

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

FAQs

Configuration Settings

Site administration setting

Site administration block contains most site configuration settings including:

Front Page settings- initial or home page of a Moodle site
Themes - user interface packages of XHTML and CSS controls
Language - default and additional language packs
Activity modules administration
Blocks administration
Filters - Text and Multimedea plugins
Backup settings
HTML editor settings
Calendar settings
Maintenance mode
Notification page used to update versions
Settings block Moodle 2.0 site settings location

Other settings

Course settings for course home page configuration
- Each type of activity, resource and block has their own settings
Older versions settings
- Site settings pre 1.7
- Variables pre 1.6
- Comparison between configuration settings in Moodle 1.6 & 1.7

User Management

Authentication of user on a site
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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 * [http://www.bfcnetworks.com/whitepapers/implementing-moodle-on-a-windows-high-availability-environment// Implementing Moodle on a Windows High Availability Environment] Implementing Moodle 1.9 on 2 Microsoft Load Balanced Web Front End Server and a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Cluster environment
-Moodle 2
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 * [http://www.bfcnetworks.com/whitepapers/installing-moodle-2-on-windows-server-mysql-php-and-iis7/ Installing Moodle 2 on Windows Server, MySQL, PHP and IIS7]
 * [http://www.bfcnetworks.com/whitepapers/installing-moodle-2-on-windows-server-2008-r2-x64-sql-iis/ Installing Moodle 2 on Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, PHP and IIS7]

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