Moodle

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Maintainer

Dungog.net (Software)

Description

http://www.moodle.org

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

For uninstall

rpm -e 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 or domain property before setting up moodle. refer to options below
eg. config setprop moodle domain moodle.yourserver.org

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

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-moodle component or use this link .