Chapter 3. Configuring Your Site

Many settings that are made after the installation process affect the student and teacher experience in Moodle, when they use the site. The focus of this chapter is on helping you create the user experience that you want, by choosing the right settings.

Many of the choices in settings that you make will be easy to decide. For example, will you allow your users to select their own time zone? Other choices are not so obvious. You could spend a lot of time trying different settings to see how they affect the user experience. These are the settings that we will focus on in this chapter. The goal is to save you time by showing you the effects that key settings will have on your site.

Tip

If your system administrator or webmaster has installed Moodle for you, you might be tempted to just accept the default configuration and skip this chapter. Don't!

Even if you did not install Moodle, we encourage you to read the configuration sections in this chapter...