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How to use Moodle Generico to click to view content

Let's say you have some content that you would like hidden until someon clicks on it, then the content is ...

How to auto scroll the page down to the tabs when using the Onetopic format in Moodle

Administrators: This article is suitable for Moodle administrators and requires access to modify a plugin. Remember that these changes will ...

How to use the Generico plugin to add an iframe in Moodle

Adding an iframe for additional content can be a bit complex for some Moodle teachers, especially if they do not ...

How to copy individual activities and pages between courses in Moodle

Sometimes you have a collection of pages or a topic from another course that you would like to have in ...

Moodle admin hint #8 Check performance overview

As an admin you sometimes make changes in your administration settings to check issues and forget to switch things back ...

Moodle admin hint #7 Automated backups

FOR ADMINISTRATORS ONLY You won’t need it now but I guarantee when you least expect it, someone will accidentally delete ...

How to use the template plugin in Moodle

This is one of the most useful plugins I have ever used. This plugin lets you create course templates, where ...

Moodle admin hint #6 Edit the config file

DO NOT CHANGE ANY SETTINGS IN YOUR MOODLE CONFIG FILE UNLESS YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AS YOU ...

Moodle admin hint #2 Run CRON manually

This is something you should not have to do on production but you may need to do this on your ...

Moodle web service links. Getting started with PHP web services.

If you have experimented with the Moodle Web Services then you will find there are pockets of information that can ...

Moodle admin hint #1 Purge the Moodle Cache

When things go a little crazy and people are asking why icons are missing or why a theme change hasn’t ...

Moodle admin hint #5 Read log files

Someone will undoubtedly do something wrong or an issue will arise where you need to go searching through the log ...