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Moodle 1.9 Extension Development: By writing Moodle plugins, you can make this open source learning platform fit your needs precisely, and this book shows you how with a step-by-step

Moodle 1.9 Extension Development: By writing Moodle plugins, you can make this open source learning platform fit your needs precisely, and this book shows you how with a step-by-step


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By writing Moodle plugins, you can make this open source learning platform fit your needs precisely, and this book shows you how with a step-by-step approach that takes you from the basics to advanced techniques. Key Features Develop your own blocks, activities, filters, and organize your content with secure code Thoroughly covers key libraries of Moodle and best practices to use them Explore the Moodle architectural concepts, how it is structured, and how it works Detailed examples and screenshots for easy learning Book DescriptionMoodle gives you the power to create and customize feature-rich plug-ins. If you can write Moodle plug-ins, you can make it do just about anything. From making the site easier to administer, to new features, to completely changing the way it looks; plug-ins are the method Moodle offers to customize and extend its functionality. This book will show you how to build all sorts of Moodle plug-ins: admin plug-ins, Blocks, Activities, Grading components, Reports, Fliters that change the way your site works and looks. You will develop standard Moodle plug-ins such as Activities, Filters, and Blocks by creating functioning code that you can execute in your own Moodle installation. Writing modular plug-ins for Moodle will be a large focus of this book.This book will take you inside Moodle and provide you with the ability to develop code the “Moodle way”.This book will expose you to all of the core code functions in Moodle, in a progressive, understandable way. You will learn what libraries are available, what the API calls are, how it is structured and how it can be expanded beyond the plug-in system.You will begin by getting an understanding of the basic architecture that Moodle uses to operate in. Next you will build your first plug-in; a block. You will carry on building other Moodle plug-ins, gaining knowledge of the “Moodle way” of coding, before plunging deeper into the API and inner libraries. Lastly, you will learn how to integrate Moodle with other systems using a variety of methods.When you have completed, you will have a solid understanding of Moodle programming and knowledge of how to extend its functionality in whatever way you want.What you will learn Add activities and grading components to keep a track of students’ progress automatically Create Moodle Filters to process and filter the contents of the database Customize the look and feel of your Moodle site using powerful plug-ins Customize Moodle reports to assess the performance of a student easily Allow integration with third-party systems such as HR and student information systems to access any data directly Automate notifications for any updates in the courses Customize forms to be filled by students using ‘formlib’ library Extend Moodle beyond its boundaries using web services and explore the features of SOAP-based and XMM-RPC-based web services Who this book is forThis book is written for technologists who are interested in expanding Moodle's functions through programming, either for their own organizations or to contribute to the open source project.You should be familiar with Moodle's basic technologies: PHP, MySQL ,and HTML/CSS.

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    About the Author :
    Jonathan Moore is currently the Vice President of Remote-Learner.net , and a special projects manager. Jonathan formerly served as the Director of Technology for Winfield Public Schools. He served in this capacity for almost ten years and has developed a broad set of educational technology and project management skills over the course of his career. His student technology program (Student Technology Assistance Team STAT) was recognized nationally by Comptia as the best Rural student technology program. Michael Churchward is currently President and CTO of Remote Learner, a Moodle partner based in the US and Canada. Mike has been a developer of Moodle since 2004 and contributes both core code and add-on functions to the Open Source project. Mike and his development team are currently working on other extensions to Moodle and helping define the new Moodle 2.0 architecture.


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    • ISBN-13: 9781847194251
    • Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    • Publisher Imprint: Packt Publishing Limited
    • Language: English
    • Sub Title: By writing Moodle plugins, you can make this open source learning platform fit your needs precisely, and this book shows you how with a step-by-step
    • ISBN-10: 1847194257
    • Publisher Date: 29 Apr 2010
    • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
    • No of Pages: 320


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