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Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition

You're reading from   Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition An administrator's guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783289714
Length 492 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Moodle Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. The Moodle System 3. Courses, Users, and Roles 4. Course Management 5. User Management 6. Managing Permissions – Roles and Capabilities 7. Moodle Look and Feel 8. Moodle Plugins 9. Moodle Configuration 10. Moodle Logging and Reporting 11. Moodle Security and Privacy 12. Moodle Performance and Optimization 13. Backup and Restore 14. Moodle Admin Tools 15. Moodle Integration 16. Moodle Networking A. Configuration Settings Index

Moodle Adminer

Adminer is an open-source tool to administer different types of SQL databases. A wrapper has been created that lets you access the tool directly from within Moodle. Like Moosh, Moodle Adminer will have to be installed in your Local plugins section (see Chapter 8, Moodle Plugins for details). You will find the installer at https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=local_adminer.

Once it's installed, you get access to the database management console via Server | Moodle Adminer. As soon as you select the link, the tool will be opened in a modal window and the underlying database used will be opened.

Moodle Adminer

Once you have selected a database, you will be able to perform operations (such as querying, altering data, or creating an SQL dump) without any SQL knowledge. Make sure you only change data if you know what you are doing—otherwise you might introduce an inconsistency to you database and Moodle will not work as expected.

We will not go into using Adminer in detail, since...

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