Moodle 2.0

Chapter 3
If you need to authenticate users across Moodle sites that are owned by different
people, then Moodle Networking is an obvious choice. However, if all of the sites
are owned by the same person or institution, you need to weigh the advantages
and disadvantages of using Moodle Networking versus some kind of central login.
For example, suppose several departments in your university install their own
Moodle sites. If they want to authenticate students on all of their sites, they could
use Moodle Networking to share student login information. This would make sense
if the university's IT department could not, or would not, let them authenticate
students against the university's LDAP server or student database. But if all of
the departments could authenticate against a central database maintained by the
university, it would probably be easier for them to do so.
Language
The default Moodle installation includes many language packs. A language pack is a
set of translations for the Moodle interface. Language packs translate the Moodle interface,
not the course content. Here's the front page of a site when the user selects Spanish from
the language menu:
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