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Revision as of 00:44, 6 April 2008
Maintainer
Dungog.net (Software)
Description
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) A free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities.
Installation
This contrib can be found in the smecontribs repository.
yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install moodle smeserver-moodle
No need to reboot.
Setup
To setup moodle start your browser with the URL http://servername/moodle and complete the forms.
- Choose and set the URL moodle will be accessed with.
Apply any changes to the URL property before setting up moodle. refer to options below
eg. config setprop moodle URL lesson
Usage
Begin with reading the Moodle book
- Authentication
Email based self registration is the default method.
To authenticate SME users against moodle, configure moodle to use POP3.
With regular POP3, port 110, 127.0.0.1 in Moodle and "allow private" in SME server-manager > Email.
Also seems to work with POP3cert port 995 in Moodle and "allow private and public" in SME server manager > Email.
- Privileged Users
Assign new moodle system administrators, course creators and teachers.
- Courses
Add course categories before adding courses. Then assign a teacher to a course.
- Students
The default is for students to create their own account and join courses themselves.
Options
- You can fine tune access to moodle with DB settings.
http://wiki.contribs.org/Web_Application_RPM#New_DB_settings
- Local Settings
The config file is now templated, so changes need to be made in a new fragment
ll /etc/e-smith/templates/opt/moodle/html/config.php
10config-dist is the unmodified moodle config file with overrides in 20db
put site specific overrides in 25local, and enable with
expand-template /opt/moodle/html/config.php
If you think your setting should be the default raise a bug
Uninstall
rpm -e moodle smeserver-moodle
To remove mysql database and user, both are moodle, see
http://wiki.contribs.org/MySQL#Remove_a_database_and_user
Bugs
Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-moodle component or use this link .
