✅Install Moodle on your PC (easy, step by step tutorial)

Hello, Edtech fans! Welcome to a new video in which we'll be showing you the easy process of installation of a Moodle platform locally in your personal computer. Now, you may be wondering if Moodle is a web-based application that works with an internet connection, then what is the point of installing a Moodle site in a computer? Well, the main reasons might be For example that you want to be able to create your own moodle courses without the need of an internet connection Because you don't have one available for example So that you can use the resources already present in your computer in order to create your courses and later Upload these courses to a production to a connected moodle site Or maybe because you want to experiment with moodle as an administrator or as a teacher Without risking the courses already working in your production moodle site For example because you want to install and try out different moodle plugins to see how they work And i'm sure that you can think of other reasons that require the installation of moodle in your computer Now the process of installation is easy and we'll find everything we need in the main site of the Moodle community. That is moodle.org Once in the page, the first step is to go to the download section Here, we click on the latest moodle version -in this case 3.9.1 And then click on the link for the moodle installer package Choosing the one that goes with your operating system. In my case, it is Windows Then we look for the appropriate version of Moodle that we want to install In most cases. The best option will be the one marked as the latest stable release We click on the download zip button for that version and choose the destination folder For this zip file which includes everything you need to run moodle on your computer There are various elements in this package the Moodle software itself to run the site, a server software called Apache which acts as the local server without the need for an external server on the internet we also have PHP, the program language in which Moodle has been coded And finally a program called MySQL Which is a database program that will store and deal with all the tables of data that Moodle needs to handle Everything is there in the installer file that we've just downloaded Now when the download process is finished We click on the file and then unzip its contents to the location that we choose in our explorer You'll find a readme text with some technical information for this package and also two except files That you'll use later in order to start and stop your moodle server Later on, we can put links to these two exes on a handy place for example the desktop window When the unzipping is finished We go to the destination folder In my case, I previously created a modal folder in the root of my c drive Here we'll find the two exa files to start and stop the server and the database Like we said, I recommend adding direct links to these two start stop access On the desktop so that you can find them easily in the future We click on start model and the program will start the apache server A security alert will pop up and we need to allow access to go on with the Process once finished we minimize this black system window and go to our browser in my case chrome Here we write localhost and press intro The Moodle installer program will start Of course this process of installation is only needed the first time you use Moodle on your computer in the future All you need to do is click "Start Moodle" before going to the local host in the browser And then click on "Stop Moodle" when you finish using the platform so that the server and the database processes are shut Here you can choose the language for the installation or if you're happy with English then click next In the next screen you will be asked to confirm the paths where the different directories will be installed Unless there is a good reason to change them, the best option is to accept the default values and click next To go to the database settings Again, in most cases the default names will be okay Introduce the database password If you intend to manipulate the database later You should remember this password for future access Otherwise, it's not important Click next and you'll be presented with a copyright notice click continue to accept the copyright conditions And in the next page moodle checks that the server meets all the requirements There should be no problem here It will warn you that you don't have HTTPS for extra security You don't need it. So click continue Now the program will create the hundreds of tables that Moodle requires in order to record all the data This process will take a few minutes. So sit back and relax Once done click continue to go to the final steps We are near the end First you will set up the admin user for your platform Here be careful not to forget the password for this user or you won't be able to access your own site in the future Fill up the required fields for the admin and click on update profile Then if you like give a full and short name for your site This is not important since you can change them later on The rest of the settings are not important But you can go through them and change them if you like save changes and... Voila! Your new local moodle site is already installed in your computer Ready to be used and you are logged in as the admin user with all the super powers that this gives you Now you can go to the site administration and start creating courses or changing the site Configuration or installing new plugins or just playing around with your brand new moodle site I hope you enjoy If you want to be notified of new videos like this Please subscribe to my channel click the notification bell and share these videos with your colleagues Thank you for watching and see you soon You

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Length: 8min 28sec (508 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 18 2020