Administration Features 

Flat file: This method will repeatedly check for and process a specially formatted text file in the location 

that you specify. The file can look something like this:  

   add, student, 5, CF101 

   add, teacher, 6, CF101 

   add, teacheredit, 7, CF101 

   del, student, 8, CF101 

   del, student, 17, CF101 

   add, student, 21, CF101, 1091115000, 1091215000 

Paypal: The Paypal module (Fig. 76) allows you to set up paid courses. If the cost for any course is zero, 

then students are not asked to pay for entry. There is a site wide cost that you set here as a default for 

the whole site, and then a course setting that you can set for each course  individually                       

(within the  Settings  property screen). The course cost overrides the site cost. You must have a Paypal 

user account (free) to collect funds when students 

make a purchase. With the Paypal enrolment 

scheme activated, students are queried when they 

make a course selection from the site front page 

as  to  whether  or  not  they  want  to  make  a          

purchase. On click, they are taken to Paypal and 

the regular merchant transaction process for you 

account is followed. Paypal no longer requires an 

individual making a purchase to have their own 

Paypal account; this fact makes Moodle's Paypal 

enrolment feature simple and invaluable when 

Fig. 76 

creating paid courseware or collecting tuition.  

When Paypal enrolment method is selected, a new 

Property (Cost:) appears on the course  Settings  screen   

Enroll students: This features allows an admin to select a course and manually add students. 

Assign teachers: Admin can select a course and manually add 

a teacher. Teachers can be given  editing permissions  within a 

course, or blocked from using the editing features. 

Assign creators: This selection allows an admin to change a 

users permissions (Fig. 77), allowing them to create new course 

templates and to teach within such courses.  

Assign admins: A primary  admin  can  change  a  users              

permissions to admin, from a screen like Fig. 77. Admins have 

Fig. 77 

all privileges of a primary admin, except they cannot create other 

admins.  

Courses 

This selection allows the admin to define new  categories  

and  to  populate  these  categories  with  new  courses           

(e.g. Mathematics (category)   8th Grade Algebra Class 

(course). Fig. 78 displays the property screen for creating, 

deleting or hiding categories, and the button to  Add a new 

course . Courses can be moved from one category to 

another, and you can change the order on the site front 

page in which categories appear. 

Logs 

Admins may be asked to examine the activity logs of a 

certain student on occasion, and report their findings to a 

Fig. 78 

teacher or organizational manager. The Logs selection in 

Administration allows you to do this (Fig. 79), with features for selecting: 

A course to view 

A student to view 

A date or range to view 

Fig. 79 

A specific activity to view 

Logs are also available to a teacher 

within their course as a selection in  

the Administration block. 

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