21 docs tagged with "API"

Activity modules are a fundamental course feature and are usually the primary delivery method for learning content in Moodle.

The Analytics API allows managers to use predictions to detect trends and predict student behaviour

A Check is a runtime test to make sure that something is working well. You can think of Checks as similar and complimentary to the PHPUnit and Acceptance testing but the next layer around them, and performed at run time rather than development, or build time.

This page describes the common files which may be present in any Moodle subsystem or plugin type. Some of these files are mandatory and must exist within a component, whilst others are optional.

Moodle provides a series of Core APIs which can be used by any part of Moodle.

In this page you'll access to the available functions under Moodle to be able to handle DB structures (tables, fields, indexes...).

This page describes the functions available to access data in the Moodle database. You should exclusively use these functions in order to retrieve or modify database content because these functions provide a high level of abstraction and guarantee that your database manipulation will work against different RDBMSes.

A number of native drivers are included with Moodle, including those with support for:

The DML API uses a selection of exceptions to indicate errors.

Overview

File converters are an important tool to support other plugins with file conversion supported between a wide range of file formats. File converters are accessed using the File conversion API and are typically consumed by other plugins rather than by the user directly.

Users are able to submit a wide range of files, and it is a common requirement to convert these to alternative formats.

Moodle's Form API is an extension of the Pear HTMLQuickForm API, which is no longer supported. Some documentation for the upstream library is available in the PEAR package page, including a short tutorial. A longer tutorial is also available, courtesy of the Internet Archive.

Form are created using the Form API. The Form API supports most standard HTML elements, including checkboxes, radio buttons, text boxes, and so on, adding additional accessibility and security features to them.

Moodle Groups are a way of expressing collections of users within a course. They may be defined by the teacher in the course participants page, or created automatically during a bulk user upload (for example, from a text file).

Locking is required whenever you need to prevent two, or more, processes accessing the same resource at the same time. The prime candidate for locking in Moodle is cron. Locking allows multiple cron processes to work on different parts of cron at the same time with no risk that they will conflict (work on the same job at the same time).

Machine learning backends process the datasets generated from the indicators and targets calculated by the Analytics API. They are used for machine learning training, prediction and models evaluation.

The Output API is responsible for visual aspects of Moodle content. This page explain how renderers, renderables, themes and templates all work together.

Overview

Moodle is a powerful, and very extensible, Learning Management System. One of its core tenets is its extensibility, and this is primarily achieved through the development of plugins.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an EU directive that provides users with more control over their data and how it is processed. This regulation came into effect on 25th of May 2018 and covers any citizen or permanent resident of the European Union. The directive is respected by a number of other countries outside of the European Union.