What's new in reports

Let's move on to the really useful Reports link now.

Chapter 8

Comments
As an administrator we have the right to see and delete any comments made throughout our Moodle site. We can view and edit them on the screen as in the following screenshot:

Config changes
This screen gives us an at-a-glance view at changes made to the basic configuration of our Moodle site. This is particularly useful for problem tracking when multiple administrators are on a system or an external support provider has to track down an issue. In the next screenshot for instance, we see that anonymous feedback, portfolios, and RSS feeds had recently been enabled.

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Question instances
Whereas in Moodle 1.9 we had a Question screen which reports on possible problems in our question database, in Moodle 2.0 we have a Question instances screen which will provide us with a list of all contexts in the system where there are questions of a particular type. Here's a report on instances of the True/False question type for example:

Development
Rather than calling itself Miscellaneous Moodle 2.0 has a Development section with the following items:

Experimental
Changes relating to groups and groupings are here: There is no longer an option to enable groupings; they are enabled by default There is an option to enable the group members only feature.

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We can also transfer or export the contents of our Moodle database to another server.

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Web service test client

This is where we can test web service functions.

Purge all caches

Moodle can cache themes, JavaScript, language strings, filtered text, RSS feeds, and many other pieces of calculated data. Purging these caches will delete that data from the server and force browsers to refetch data, so that you can be sure you are seeing the most up-to-date values produced by the current code.
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Moodle network test client

Our list of networked hosts, should we have some, will appear here.

Functional database tests

We can run functional database tests from here, choosing to show passes as well as fails.

Changes in Course administration

What a tutor sees in their Settings block depends on what has been enabled by admin. For instance, in the following screenshot our teacher Andy has the Completion tracking link below as he set up course completion in Chapter 6, Managing the Learning Path.

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Some of these features we're familiar with already from earlier chapters; others we'll go through now.

Chapter 8

How to enrol students into a coursethe Users link

The Users link expands to the following: Enrolled users is where Andy or other tutors can see who is already on the course and where they can manually enrol others. If we look at what he sees when he accesses this link, we note, it tells us the role a user has, any groups they might be in, and how and when they were enrolled.

Note that, Andy can remove a role by clicking on the X and can add a role by clicking on the icon as shown in the following screenshot:

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