Tech KNOW Tour 2007

Sydney Boys: Installing Moodle

11/17/2007

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Installingand ConfiguringMoodle Configuring Moodle

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DownloadlatestWindowsInstallpackage fromMoodle.org

Setup
Extractzipandcopymoodle foldertoC:\ Runsetup_xampp tochangepaths Thenstartxamppcontrol toconfigureservices

Setup EnableLDAP
YouneedtoenableLDAPinXAMPP OpenC:\moodle\apache\bin\php.ini Findldapandremove;atstartofline

ServiceInstallation
TohaveMoodlestartautomatically
TicktheSVCboxnexttoApacheandMySql Thenclickthestartbuttonsnexttothem

InitialInstallation
Startupyourwebbrowserandtypeinlocalhost Gothroughscreensclickingnextandfillingin schooldetailsasrequired. Youmaywishtochange h h datadirectorytoa differentdrivewith morespace.

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Sydney Boys: Installing Moodle

11/17/2007

FirstRun

FrontPageSettings

MoodleCron
Moodlehasseveralscriptsthatrun automatically,suchasbackup,enrolment,etc. Tomakethisworkonwindowsyouneedto installanextraprogram. install an extra program http://docs.moodle.org/en/Cron http://download.moodle.org/download.php/ sourceforge/MoodleCronSetup.exe

UserAuthentication AD
Allowuserstousetheirexistinglogindetails NeedtoconnecttoActiveDirectory(AD)using LDAP AddanewADusertousewithMoodle dd ih dl

UserAuthenticationAD
DownloadADExplorerfromSysInternals www.sysinternals.com >NetworkingUtilities Startandaddyourdomaincontroller(Main Server) S )

UserAuthenticationAD
BrowsetowhereyoucreatedMoodleuser CopythePathoftheuser,eg
CN=MoodleUser,CN=Users,DC=win,DC=sydneyboys h,DC=schools,DC=nsw,DC=edu,DC=au

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Sydney Boys: Installing Moodle

11/17/2007

UserAuthentication Moodle
LogintoMoodlesiteasAdmin InAuthenticationenableLDAPanddisable Email Cli k ClickLDAPSettings S i

UserAuthentication Moodle
ClickLDAPSettings Typeinschoolspecific details Paste in the path of the Pasteinthepathofthe MoodleUser Pasteinthepathofthe MoodleUserandtype intheirpassword

UserAuthentication Moodle
UsingADExplorercopy thepathofthe containerholdingall yourstaffandstudent users PasteintotheContexts option

UserAuthentication Moodle
Dothesameagainfora groupyouwishtouse tocreatecourses. ThensettheDataMappingoptionsasshown.

UserAuthentication Moodle
NowwhenuserslogintoMoodlewiththeirnetwork usernameandpasswordforthefirsttimeitwillprompt themtofillintheirdetailsfortheirnewaccount.
Notethe locked items from previous page cannotbe changed

CreatingaCourse
ClickonAddanewcourse

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Tech KNOW Tour 2007

Sydney Boys: Installing Moodle

11/17/2007

CourseSettings
Fillinclass name,an abbreviated nameand summary. Changethe formatto Topicsif preferred.

AddingCourseContent
Clicktheshortclassnametoreturntoclass. ClickTurneditingontomodifythecourseand addcontent Addresourcesor activitiesas desired

MoodleLinks

UsefulLinks

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_AMP#Windows http://docs.moodle.org/en/LDAP_authentication http://docs.moodle.org/en/Cron http://download.moodle.org/download.php/ sourceforge/MoodleCronSetup.exe f /M dl C S t http://docs.moodle.org/en/Using_Moodle_book http://download.moodle.org/docs/teachermanual.pdf http://moodle.tokem.fi/

Other
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ Networking/AdExplorer.mspx

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