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Introduction In this blog entry, I’d like to go through some basic concepts of the Moodle architecture. We will look at very common but sometimes confusing parts of Moodle: instance IDs, contexts and coursemodules. To explain the concepts we will use an actual Moodle 2.3 installation. We will look at what is happening in MoodleRead more

Would you like to test Moodle 2 performance? Or maybe you are interested in checking Moodle’s scalability? Sure, it works fast with the few courses you have created – but how will it look when you have hundreds of courses and thousands of users? In either case, you will need to fill your Moodle installationRead more

Filters in Moodle are pluggable elements that can convert an output text to some other text. This is currently used for the functionality like: replacing text based emoticons with images (emoticon filter) generating images for mathematical expressions (tex filer) converting plain text URLs (http://…) into proper HTML links and much more In this tutorial weRead more