Install moodle

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 Introducing Moodle

Moodle is an Open-Source course management system that helps teachers and students better communicate and interact between each other. It’s a secure place where they exchange course files, view there grades, get course contents and exams…

 Installing Moodle – Fantastico De Luxe

• Step 1: Login to your Admin cPanel http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel
• Step 2: Locate and click on the Fantastico De Luxe Icon
• Step 3: Under the “Other Scripts” section, find and click on “Moodle”
• Step 4: In the right panel, select “New Installation”
• Step 5: on page 1 of the installation process, you will be prompted for the installation directory. To have Moodle installed on your website’s main page (http://www.yourdomain.com) leave it blank else, insert the directory of your choice (http://www.yourdomain.com/moodle). Fill out all the required information accordingly and click “Install Moodle”.

 Installing Moodle – Manually

• Step 1: Download the latest stable version of Moodle from the official website, by browsing the download section.
• Step 2: Uncompress the downloaded file to a specified directory on your desktop.
• Step 3: Upload the extracted files (keeping the directories structure intact) to your web hosting account via FTP to a specified directory of your choice (e.g. /moodle).
• Step 4: Login to your Admin cPanel, locate & click on “MySQL Databases”.
• Step 5: Create a MySQL database and save its name along with the username and password for future use.
• Step 6: Using your browser, go to the location of your newly uploaded files: http://www.yourdomain.com/moodle
• Step 7: Once you access the above address, the installation wizard will be launched. Choose the proper language and click “Next”

• Step 10: After setting the installation location, you need to provide the script with the proper database location and credentials in order to connect to that database and upgrade it with all the necessary tables and entries.

 Managing Moodle

Administrative Backend

The administrative backend of Moodle contains several options that the administrator or even a user can benefit from. From modules to security settings and Authentication methods, the administrator can control even the smallest settings of Moodle. To access the administrative backend, all what you have to do is to login using the administrative username/password created previously upon the Moodle installation.

Create a Course

• Step 1: Login to the administrative backend of Moodle.
• Step 2: Under the right panel, click on “Courses”.
• Step 3: Click on “Add/Edit Courses”.
• Step 4: Click on the “Add a new course” button.
• Step 5: Fill in the required fields and when done with that, click on the “save changes” button.

Enroll user in a course

• Step 1: Login to the administrative backend of Moodle.
• Step 2: Under the right panel, click on “Courses”.
• Step 3: Select the respective category from the main panel.
• Step 4: Select the course that you need to enroll students to.
• Step 5: Once inside the course, you will find an administrative course menu on the left, click on “Assign Roles”
• Step 6: From the list available, click “Student”
• Step 7: A list of available users are on the left side. To enroll a user, just select it and press the left arrow button.

Upload a file to a course

• Step 1: Login to the administrative backend of Moodle.
• Step 2: Under the right panel, click on “Courses”.
• Step 3: Select the respective category from the main panel.
• Step 4: Select the course that you need to upload the file to.
• Step 5: Once inside the course, you will find an administrative course menu on the left, click on “files”
• Step 6: To upload the file, click on the “Upload a file” button.
• Step 7: Provide the location of the file and click “Upload this file”.

 Backup Moodle database

• Step 1: Login to your hosting account cPanel, locate and click on the “PhpMyAdmin” icon.
• Step 2: From within PhpMyAdmin, choose the Moodle Database.
• Step 3: On the top menu of the database table list, click on “Export”
• Step 4: In the export options, make sure you:
  • “Select All” Tables
  • Check “Structures” property.
  • Check “Data” property.
  • Check “Save as” option
• Step 5: Once you double check that all the options in step 4 are set, click Go and save to the file to your desktop.