Administrator documentation
From MoodleDocs
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
- 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
- Step-by-step Installation Guide for Ubuntu
- Manual installation of Moodle 2.0 on Mythbuntu (and Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04) using Git
- Manual Installation on Ubuntu
- Step-by-step Installation Guide for Zenwalk-5.0
- Step-by-step Installation Guide for the One Laptop per Child XS Server (Beta)
- Step-by-step Installation Guide for Solaris 10 with Oracle 10
- Installation Guide for Installing on Amazon EC2
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
- Installing Moodle 2 on Windows Server, MySQL, PHP and IIS7
- Installing Moodle 2 on Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, PHP and IIS7
Mac
- Step by step Installation on a Mac OS X Server 10.5/10.6
- Complete Install Packages for Mac OS X Clients 10.4/10.5/10.6
- Step by Step Installation on a Mac OS X 10.4 Client using the internal web server
Web Hosts
- Installation on 1and1 web hosting
- Step-by-step Installation on Powweb web hosting
- Step-by-step Installation using the old version of CPanel
- Step-by-step Installation using the new version of CPanel
Appliances
Some users may prefer to skip manual installation by using a pre-integrated Moodle appliance.
Database
Plugins
Security, Performance and Roles
- Security contains important security procedures for a production site
- Performance for ideas on improving the speed of your installation
- 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
- Installation FAQ
- Beginning Administration FAQ
- Administration FAQ
- Performance FAQ
- Backup and restore FAQ
- Errors FAQ
- List of 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
- Automated course backup
- HTML editor settings
- Calendar settings
- Maintenance mode
- Notification page used to update versions
- Settings block
Other settings
- Course settings for course home page configuration
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
Other
- Courses and course formats
- Reports (administrator) and Logs
- Site files
- Moodle site database
- Environment
- Moodle Network and Moodle Community hub
- Streaming Media
- Case studies (administrator)
- Anti-virus
- System Monitoring and Server Statistic Software
- Integrate Moodle, LDAP and SIMS.net
- How to rebuild context paths
- Hacking the Moodle 2.0 database transfer script to convert a Moodle 1.9 site
See also
- Index of all Administrator-related pages
- Integrations
- CVS for Administrators
- Email processing
- Search engine optimization
- Messaging
- Migration
- Metacourses
- Block layout
- Customizing Moodle
- Administrator do's and don'ts
- Using Moodle book Chapter 16: Moodle Administration
- Administration hacks
- Git Version control, upgrading
