Administrator documentation: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 13:13, 23 June 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

Site administration block contains most site configuration settings including:

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

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

Welcome to MATHEMATICS 2 THE POINT, NFP, Inc

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 **[[Assign creators|Assign course creators]] - in a site
 **[[Assign administrators]] - in a site
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 ==Other==