Administration Features 

Filters: Moodle has a number of special filters (Fig. 71) built in which an admin can enable, including: 

Glossary Auto linking: When active will create a hypertext 

link within a course activity created with  the  HTML  editor             

(e.g. Assignment, Forum, Quiz, Lesson etc.), that will display 

an associated glossary entry in a pop up window. 

Resource/Activity/Wiki Names Auto linking: When active 

will  create  a  hypertext  link  within  a  course  to  resources,             

activities, and wiki entries with this value. 

Algebra/TeX notation: When active allows math expressions 

to be entered in the HTML editor, when surrounded by special 

charters (e.g. $$   see page 36). 

Fig. 71 

Multimedia Plugins: When active media resources like Flash, 

MP3, Windows Media and QuickTime files will embed their 

players within an activity created with the HTML editor (see page 15). 

Word Censorship: Moodle allows an admin to censor inappropriate words that students might use in 

forums mostly, when this filter is active. A few basic words are included in the filter by default, and the 

admin can add to this list by simply editing the filter.php file located in the /filter/censor folder of your 

Moodle installation. This file can be opened and appended in any text editor (Notepad, etc.). 

Multi Language Content: This filter looks for  tags in your HTML which indicate that a text  

contains multiple languages. It then selects and outputs the best language for the current user. 

Email Protection: When active, your Moodle site is protected against spam bots and webcrawlers 

that search out e mail addresses for harvesting. This includes such services as Google, Yahoo etc.  

Backup: Moodle can be set to 

automate 

site wide 

backups        

(Fig. 72) using this property. It is 

important for the admin to set a 

schedule of nightly backups for 

Moodle, and to encourage their 

teachers and course creators to 

perform backups of their courses 

(see page 42).  Select the items 

you wish to backup (defaults), 

and choose Yes from the Active 

drop down list. Next, click the 

days you want Moodle to perform 

backups, and an Execute at: 

time. By default your backups will 

be stored in the moodledata 

folder 1 backupdata directory. 

Fig. 72 

Click Save changes when you 

have set properties to your liking. 

Editor Settings: These properties allow you to control some features that are available within Moodle's 

built in HTML editor. For example, you can add more fonts to the default list that appears, and if Aspell is 

installed on the server you can enable the spelling dictionary. 

Users 

Authentication: By default, Moodle creates a 

New Account

 on the site using  Email based authentication , 

unique for each student user (Fig. 73). This means that users will create their own accounts and will be sent 

an e mail message that contains a link back to the site, which completes  the  authentication  process.                    

On subsequent visits the user will just Login at the site prompt.   

Fig. 73 

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