Moodle tricks

This page will include some configuration tricks you may want to know if you teach Moodle. By definition, a Moodle server has very restrictive policies.

Creating Users

There are users without mail, e.g. children or test students. Email is always required and you cannot use twice the same email. Creating extra emails with your provider is a hassle.

Solution: Just use a fake email, e.g. fake@yourdomainxxx.com, fake2@yourdomainxxx.com It's not an optimal solution, but next to editing PHP code I would not find another solution.

Creating competence frameworks

Teachers cannot create competency frameworks in order to insure consistency. However, in a learning situation (teacher being trainees) they should be able to do so.

• The best solution is to create a new role, e.g. competencer
• Give this role all competency powers
• Add this role to your "teachers" in training.

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