Moodle 2.0

Configuring Your Site
Many configuration choices that are made after the installation process affect the
students' and teachers' experience when they use your Moodle site. This chapter's
focus is on helping you create the user experience that you want, by making the right
configuration choices.
Many of the configuration choices that you make will be easy to decide. For example,
will you allow your users to select their own time zone? Other configuration choices
are not so obvious. You could spend a lot of time trying different settings to see what
effect a setting has on your user's experience. These are the settings that we will
focus on in this chapter. The goal is to save you time by showing you the effects
that key configuration choices will have on your site.
If your system administrator or webmaster has installed Moodle for you,
you might be tempted to just accept the default configuration and skip
this chapter. Don't!
Even if you did not install Moodle, we encourage you to read the configuration
sections in this chapter. If you want, you can work with your system administrator to
select the settings that you want. Your administrator can create a site administrator
account that you can use for configuring Moodle, or, can make these configuration
settings for you.
Prepare to experiment
Although this chapter describes the effects of different configuration choices, there
is no substitute for experiencing them yourself. Don't be afraid to experiment with
different settings. You can try this method:
1. When installing Moodle, you created an account for the site administrator.
Now, create test accounts for at least one teacher and three students.