Moodle

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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

Install from the dungog repo, or download moodle and smeserver-moodle from any [mirror]

The following command will configure the Dungog repository on SME Server. The dungog repository will no longer be updated. All the contribs from this repository have been moved to the smecontribs repository.

DungogMember contribs are still at http://www.dungog.net After adding it to the database we have to update the changes to the configuration file:

signal-event yum-modify

To install

yum --enablerepo=dungog install moodle smeserver-moodle

For uninstall

yum remove moodle smeserver-moodle

For both you can ignore the yum-comments signal event post-upgrade and signal-event 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 simplest and 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

Students can be authenticated against SME (if enabled), created from a flat text file or the default is for them to create their own account and join courses themselves.

Options

You can fine tune access to moodle with DB settings.

http://wiki.contribs.org/Generic_WebApp_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

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 .

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