Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide: Customize your Moodle apps by creating custom plugins, extensions, and modules

Key Features

• Customize your Moodle 3.x app.
• Leverage the new features of Moodle 3.x by diving deep into the Moodle development eco-system.
• Cater to heavy user traffic, customize learning requirements and create custom third party plugins.

Book Description

The new and revamped Moodle is the top choice for developers to create cutting edge e-learning apps that cater to different user's segments and are visually appealing as well.

This book explains how the Moodle 3.x platform provides a framework that allows developers to create a customized e-learning solution. It begins with an exploration of the different types of plugin..

We then continue with an investigation of creating new courses. You will create a custom plugin that pulls in resources from a third-party repository. Then you'll learn how users can be assigned to courses and granted the necessary permissions.

Furthermore, you will develop a custom user home. At the end of the book, we'll discuss the Web Services API to fully automate Moodle 3.x in real time.

What you will learn

• Work with the different types of custom modules that can be written for Moodle 3.x
• Understand how to author custom modules so they conform to the agreed Moodle 3.x development guidelines
• Get familiar with the Moodle 3.x architecture―its internal and external APIs
• Customize Moodle 3.x so it can integrate seamlessly with third-party applications of any kind
• Build a new course format to specify the layout of a course
• Implement third-party graphics libraries in your plugins
• Build plugins that can be themed easily

• Country	USA
  Brand	Packt Publishing
  Manufacturer	Packt Publishing
  Binding	Paperback
  ReleaseDate	2017-06-29
  UnitCount	1
  EANs	9781786467119