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NMT Moodle 1.9 Administrator's Guide

Abstract

This guide describes procedures for local administration of our Moodle courseware server.

This publication is available in Web form and also as a PDF document. Please forward any comments to tcc-doc@nmt.edu.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Definitions of Moodle terms

2.1. Category
2.2. Course
2.3. Role

3. Overview of administrator operations

4. Processing an instructor request

4.1. Researching section data
4.2. Building the adds.xml file
4.3. Uploading current courses and sections to Moodle
4.4. Editing the new section

5. Daily operations

5.1. Creating all user accounts on the Moodle server
5.2. Transferring current enrollments to the Moodle server
5.3. Uploading SIS integration files

6. Cross-listed courses

6.1. Creating the metacourse for a cross-listed set
6.2. Adding and deleting child courses from a metacourse
6.3. Hide the children

7. Manual operations through the Web interface

7.1. Manual class creation
7.2. Manual enrollment: Assigning instructors to classes
7.3. Creating and editing course categories
7.4. Assigning system roles
7.5. Creating a new role

8. Making a course backup

9. Restoring and merging backups

10. Operations at the end of a semester

11. Outline for a Moodle training course

11.1. One-on-one instruction
11.2. Classroom instruction

12. Appendix I: Department codes

13. Configuration change log

13.1. 2012-02-08: Change to the Advising Center role
13.2. 2012-01-26: Clarify role descriptions
13.3. 2012-01-20: Allow teachers to assign more roles
13.4. 2011-09-08: Create the “Grader” role
13.5. 2011-07-01: Create the “Advising center” role
13.6. 2009-08-03: Disable email self-registration and name-munging

1. Introduction

This guide is written for day-to-day administration of the Tech Computer Center's Moodle site. Installation and configuration of the server is beyond the scope of this document; for those issues, refer to tccwiki/moodle in the TCC internal Wiki.

The server is at https://moodle.nmt.edu/.
The master administrator account is admin. Obtain the password from a co-worker.
Once you have the admin password, set up an account using your TCC staff account login, and give it administrator privileges. Use that account thereafter for administration.
Mail sent to TCC mail alias cms_master goes to all administrators. Make sure you are included in this alias.
If you make any changes in Moodle's overall configuration through its web interface, be sure to add a section to this document under Section 13, “Configuration change log”.

For documentation on the implementation of the tools described in this document, see cmsimport: Courseware Banner integration tools.

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John W. Shipman

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Last updated: 2012-02-08 17:39

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