Managing a Moodle site

Got your Moodle installed? If not, check the Getting your Moodle section.

Managing a Moodle site section of Moodle Docs contains information and resources useful after Moodle site is installed and needs to be managed, most likely by the Moodle Admin or Manager:

• Learn about the basic structure of a Moodle site, how to navigate, edit things and turn on the site's advanced features.

• See how you can manage site users, authenticate them, create accounts and define, manage roles and capabilities on your site.

• Check how the appearance of your Moodle and its front page can be customised with different themes, blocks, languages and other sitewide display settings.

• Learn how keep your Moodle secure.

• Ensure you don't lose valuable information by performing regular site backup & restore.

• See Moodle's sitewide communication tools: comments, blogs, messaging, calendar, notes and tags.

• Check the server settings.

• Use Moodle's networking features.

• Keep an eye on actions across your site with a range of sitewide reports.

• Connect with a range of newly developed web services.

• Explore how you can extend your Moodle by a range of contributed, non-standard modules, filters and plugins.

• Use developer tools to further customise and manage your Moodle.

For information on how to use Moodle as a teacher or similar, head over to Managing a Moodle course and Learning and evaluation tools sections.

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