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    Admin Quick Guide: Setting Up The Front (Home) Page

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    1. The document provides guidance for administrators on setting up and managing a Moodle site. It covers topics such as authentication, roles and permissions, security, performance, backups, site registration, site appearance, language settings, and more. 2. Key steps for setting up the front page include choosing what content to display for logged in vs non-logged in users and editing front page settings. 3. Important default site settings include setting the default language, timezone, disabling public guest access, adjusting password policies, and verifying cron jobs are running.

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    1. The document provides guidance for administrators on setting up and managing a Moodle site. It covers topics such as authentication, roles and permissions, security, performance, backups, site registration, site appearance, language settings, and more. 2. Key steps for setting up the front page include choosing what content to display for logged in vs non-logged in users and editing front page settings. 3. Important default site settings include setting the default language, timezone, disabling public guest access, adjusting password policies, and verifying cron jobs are running.

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    1. The document provides guidance for administrators on setting up and managing a Moodle site. It covers topics such as authentication, roles and permissions, security, performance, backups, site registration, site appearance, language settings, and more. 2. Key steps for setting up the front page include choosing what content to display for logged in vs non-logged in users and editing front page settings. 3. Important default site settings include setting the default language, timezone, disabling public guest access, adjusting password policies, and verifying cron jobs are running.

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    1. The document provides guidance for administrators on setting up and managing a Moodle site. It covers topics such as authentication, roles and permissions, security, performance, backups, site registration, site appearance, language settings, and more. 2. Key steps for setting up the front page include choosing what content to display for logged in vs non-logged in users and editing front page settings. 3. Important default site settings include setting the default language, timezone, disabling public guest access, adjusting password policies, and verifying cron jobs are running.

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    Admin quick guide

    MANAGING A MOODLE SITE

    Admin quick guide

    Authentication

    Roles and permissions

    Security

    Performance

    Backup

    Site registration

    Site appearance

    Language

    Server settings

    Site-wide reports

    Admin tools

    Developer tools

    Web servicesMore features

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    Administration FAQ Setting up the front (home) page


    1. If you're using the Boost theme, click the gear menu top right of the front page and then click
    'Edit settings'. Alternatively, click 'Edit settings' from the Administration block on your front
    page.
    2. Change the full name and short name if needed. (The short name shows in the navigation
    bar.)
    3. Decide what should be shown on the front page - news items, courses, course categories or
    none of these things? The same or different for logged in and non-logged in users? As for
    other settings, they can always be changed later.
    For more information, see Front page settings.

    Starting to set up a MoodleCloud site using the Boost theme


    To add text and/or images to the central area of the front page

    1. Click 'Turn editing on' either from the gear menu (Boost theme) or the Administration
    block for other themes.
    2. Click the configuration icon (cogwheel) near the top of the screen. (If you don't see this,
    check in Site administration > Front page > Front page settings that 'Include a topic section'
    is ticked.)
    3. Add text and/or images to the summary box.
    Note: If you don't want to use your front page for displaying courses or information about your
    organisation, you can display the log in page only by checking "force login" in Site administration >
    Security > Site security settings.

    Changing the look of your site


     A new Moodle site comes with two default themes, 'Boost' and 'Classic'. Both work well on
    mobile devices as well as desktops, and may be customised from the Themes area of Site
    administration.

     Find out how to add dropdown menus, footer links, Google Analytics and more in Site
    appearance.
     If your installation and organisation allow it, you can install a custom theme. See Installing
    plugins for details.

    A site using a customised More theme


    Adding courses
     Courses are Moodle's learning areas, where teachers and students work together.
     You may add a new course by clicking the 'Add a new course' button on the front page or
    from the Manage courses and categories link in the Courses area of Site administration.
     If you plan to have many courses, you can upload courses in bulk via CSV file.
     If you want certain settings in your courses to be always pre-set for you when you make a
    new course, check out Site administration > Courses > Course default settings.

    See Courses for an overview of the various aspects of courses and see courses in action with user
    data on the Mount Orange School demo site.

    An example course with the default Boost theme

    Adding users
    This is a two-step process, although it can be streamlined.
    Overview of adding users
    Step 1: Authentication
    Everyone using your site must have an account. You can allow people to create their own account
    using Email-based self-registration, or add new users individually or bulk create accounts via CSV
    file or choose from a number of other authentication methods.
    For more information, see Managing accounts and Authentication.
    Note: You do not yet decide who will be a teacher, student or other type of participant. If you're
    wondering why, read the documentation on Assigning roles.

    Step 2: Enrolment
    Once users have an account, they need to be enrolled in courses. (Now is the time to give them their
    student, teacher or other role.) You can allow them to self enrol, or you can enrol them manually
    yourself or choose from a number of other enrolment methods.
    For more information, see Enrolments.
    Note: You can create accounts and enrol users in courses at the same time if you wish by uploading
    users or you can explore Cohorts, site or category wide groups.

    Enrolling learners into a course


    File management
     Explore the process of working with files in courses so you'll be able to advise others.
     See Managing repositories for information on allowing your users to use files from external
    sources (such as Google Drive, Dropbox and MS OneDrive) in their courses.
     If uploaded file size may be an issue for you, then you can add restrictions for both the user
    quota and the site as a whole from Administration > Site administration > Security > Site security
    settings. See Site security settings for more information.

    Some of Moodle's many ways of accessing files

    Important default site settings


    1. Set your default language in Site administration > Language > Language settings. Moodle
    defaults to common English; if you need US English or another language, add that
    in Language > Language pack first then you can set it as the default.
    2. Set your default timezone and country in Site administration > Location > Location settings.
    3. Turn off public Guest access (unless you are sure you know how to use it) in Site
    administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins and Hide its button in Site
    administration > Plugins > Authentication > Manage authentication > Guest login button.
    4. Adjust your minimum password if you need to in Site adminstration>Security > Site security
    settings > Password policy.
    5. Verify that cron is running when you set that up during install. Your site will not work properly
    without it. If the message "The cli/cron.php maintenance script has not been run for at least
    24 hours." shows up in Site administration > Notifications then it is not running properly.

    Admin tips and tricks


     Go through each activity in Administration > Site administration > Plugins > Activity
    modules and decide the most suitable default settings for your Moodle. Do the same for the
    gradebook, via Administration > Site administration > Grades > General settings.
     Go to Administration > Site administration > Advanced features and review whether you want
    to make use of additional features such as blogs, RSS feeds, completion tracking (for
    both Activity completion and Course completion), conditional access, portfolios or badges.
     Consider enabling your site for Mobile app access via Site administration >Mobile
    app>Mobile settings"
     Provide the user interface in different languages by installing additional language
    packs via Site administration > Language > Language packs.
     Use wording more suitable to your users by changing Moodle's default terms
    in Administration > Site administration > Language > Language customisation.
    Badges -a feature to consider

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