...person as the site administrator, information about the day to day use and administration of a Mahara install is in a separate user guide.
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$cfg->dbuser = 'root'; // this is usually the default user for the database administrator.
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...age. This will force all current users to log out of your site, except for administrators.
...patches and the new code. (Better still, look into using a version control system such as Git, Mercurial, Subversion, or CVS, to keep track of your code chan
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...will save yourself a lot of hassle when your site needs upgrading, and the system will be more stable. Everyone who has used MySQL seriously is aware that so
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When you visit the administration section for the first time, you'll be presented with the option of reg
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...tform on which people will install it (Linux with Apache), though [[System Administrator's Guide/Requirements|Mahara can be installed on other platforms]].
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* <tt>env.showdefaultpages</tt> - whether to show default/system pages on the graph (user dashboard, user profile, group home page). Can be
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...site. You may need to create this file, or you may have already [[System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Installing_Mahara#Apache_Configuration|set one up during inst
In the admin area, under Site Administration -> Extensions -> Clean URLs, there is a button that will regenerate al
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...is ported across. In addition, from Mahara 1.2, users are able to [[System Administrator's Guide/Moodle%2f%2fMahara Integration/View Submission|submit Mahara Vi
* [[System_Administrator's_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration/View_Submission|Mahara-Moodle View S
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...t will also NOT work if it is a relative path.To work out where on the filesystem your Mahara is installed, if you can't find it some other way (like FTP), p
...r the cron or both. You can first try manually hitting your Mahara's cron system by typing the following:
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...particularly useful. You can specify the maximum quota that an institution administrator can assign to any given user.</span>
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...in charge of installing and maintaining Mahara instances on a RedHat based system you might want to put your Mahara instances in RPM packages to have a clean
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...you have Moodle 1.9, please see the installation instructions for [[System Administrator's Guide/Moodle//Mahara Integration/View Submission/Moodle 1.9|Mahara-Mo
# Log into Moodle as administrator and visit /admin to install the mnet functions.
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...lling the packages, just follow the instructions provided in the "[[System Administrator's Guide/Installing Mahara|Installing Mahara]]" main document to unzip a
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# Log into Moodle as administrator and visit /admin (installs the mnet functions).
# In mahara, log in as the mahara admin, go to Site Administration -> Administer Extensions, and click the "Install" link beside the "
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...person as the site administrator, information about the day to day use and administration of a Mahara install is in a separate user guide.
* [[System Administrator's Guide/Cron Job|Cron Job]]
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...rby:</span>'''<span style="background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192)"> [[System Administrator's Guide/Upgrading Mahara|Upgrading Mahara]]</span></font>'''<br />'''
...tform on which people will install it (Linux with Apache), though [[System Administrator's Guide/Requirements|Mahara can be installed on other platforms]].
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...felong learning. (In technical terms, it's a bit like a content management system crossed with a social network.)
* '''[[System Administrator's Guide/Requirements|System requirements]]''' for installing Mahara
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# 1. [[System Administrator's Guide/Scalability#How Should I Scale my Mahara.3f|How Should I Scale
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...s, that can run at different intervals or times of day, without the system administrator having to manually configure a new cronjob for each one.
...nt to be [[System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Cron_Job|scheduled by the System Administrator]] to be executed once per minute, either via the command-line or throug
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...che:</span>'''<span style="background-color: rgb(192, 192, 192)"> [[System Administrator's Guide/Upgrading Mahara|Upgrading Mahara]]</span></font>
[[System Administrator's Guide/Installing Mahara/Installing Mahara in Wampserver|Des instructi
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UNSW favored this solution over the expansion of the [[System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration/View_Submission | existing assignm
...ntil the archiving process is successful. This queue is processed when the system has suitable resources available to perform the archiving of that page.
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...is ported across. In addition, from Mahara 1.2, users are able to [[System Administrator's Guide/Moodle%2f%2fMahara Integration/View Submission|submit Mahara Vi
* [[System_Administrator's_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration/View_Submission|Mahara-Moodle View S
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* <tt>maharamessage</tt>: system messages sent by Mahara (usually in response to a user action)
* <tt>groupmessage</tt>: system messages sent to the members of a group (usually in response to a user or a
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...nd hardware requirements for Mahara. There is a sister article on [[System Administrator's Guide/Scalability|scalability]] that provides more details in particu
...reflect the [[SupportedVersions|latest stable release]] of Mahara. For the system requirements for older Mahara versions, check the README file in the releas
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* Devolved administration - each institution in the system can have their own administrators and staff members, leaving the site admin free to manage the overall r
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* Devolved administration - each institution in the system can have their own administrators and staff members, leaving the site admin free to manage the overall r
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* Devolved administration - each institution in the system can have their own administrators and staff members, leaving the site admin free to manage the overall r
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* Devolved administration - each institution in the system can have their own administrators and staff members, leaving the site admin free to manage the overall r
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...lling the packages, just follow the instructions provided in the "[[System Administrator's Guide/Installing Mahara|Installing Mahara]]" main document to unzip a
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...site. You may need to create this file, or you may have already [[System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Installing_Mahara#Apache_Configuration|set one up during inst
In the admin area, under Site Administration -> Extensions -> Clean URLs, there is a button that will regenerate al
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...age. This will force all current users to log out of your site, except for administrators.
...patches and the new code. (Better still, look into using a version control system such as Git, Mercurial, Subversion, or CVS, to keep track of your code chan
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! style="background:#ff0000" | See the [[System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Moodle%2F%2FMahara_Integration | Mahoodle integration]] page
===Site administration > Advanced features===
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* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1855351 Allow system administrator to restrict, which file types can be uploaded]
...tend the portfolio submissions area to include a management tool for group administrators
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...rable). These can be chosen by the owner, with uniqueness enforced by the system so that no two users could have the same urlid field, no two groups can hav
...view/view.php) with the urlids passed as query parameters. Because server administrators are required to set up rewrite rules and ensure they are working corre
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$cfg->dbuser = 'root'; // this is usually the default user for the database administrator.
...to C:\xampp\htdocs\mahara\htdocs\ . More info can be found here: [[System_Administrator%27s_Guide/Installing_Mahara#Apache_Configuration]]
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...repo on your PC or testing server. Follow the steps described at [[
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When you visit the administration section for the first time, you'll be presented with the option of reg
...itch "Register with mahara.org" and click the "Save" button you see on the administration homepage.
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This feature allows administrators to set up an email system to
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To install the language pack into your Mahara site, follow the [[System_Administrator's_Guide/Next_Steps#Install_a_Language_Pack|Language pack installation i
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Also ensure changes here are reflected on the [[System_Administrator's_Guide/Requirements#Software|Software requirements]] page.
And also sets the 'Latest version' info on the Mahara Administration dashboard for "Site information"
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...numbers are not a requirement, it is good practice and they are useful for administrators who monitor security announcements. 🛑 Note: This MITRE CVE form can
#Update the [[System_Administrator's_Guide/Requirements#Software|Software requirements]] page to match the
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*'''[[System_Administrator's_Guide/Moodle//Mahara_Integration/View_Submission | Mahara課題送信
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then follow normal mahara [[System Administrator's Guide/Installing Mahara|installation procedures]] or just copy the co
To activate the plugin, open ''Site Administration -> Institutions'' in Mahara, then choose a desired one and click "E
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...you have Moodle 1.9, please see the installation instructions for [[System Administrator's Guide/Moodle//Mahara Integration/View Submission/Moodle 1.9|Mahara-Mo
# Log into Moodle as administrator and visit /admin to install the mnet functions.
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* [[Plugins/Artfact/Library|'''Library Plugin (with Recommender System)''']] by [https://mahara.org/user/guillaume-nerzic Guillaume Nerzic] for a
===Integration with other systems===
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If you have Docker available you can [[System Administrator's Guide/Installing Mahara/MySQL and Docker|spin it up a dedicated conta
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...ich can be shared within a group. The artefact embeds a simple recommender system which can suggest publication that the user may choose to read based on use
The plugins will register automatically in the Administrator’s Plugin Administration Screen.
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Adds support for group quotas so that a site administrator can set both a default, and quotas for each specific group.
...support for defining default user quotas for each institution in a mahara system that overrides the site wide default user quota.
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== How to get your plugin seen by the system ==
...ells the system there is a config form. Shows the config cog on the Plugin Administration screen.
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1. Log in as an admin. Go to "Administration" -> "Configure site" -> "Networking"
...ng Moodle's facility to install them from the Moodle plugin database (Site administration -> Plugins -> Install plugins).
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...e time to give you the opportunity to test Mahara entirely, including site administrator permissions. If you have an internet connection, the code is updated au
The live DVD / USB uses Ubuntu as operating system, but you won't have to interact with it much if you are not familiar with i
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Given I choose "Admin menu item" from administration menu
''<small>E.g: <br />And I choose "Admin home" from administration menu<br />
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...institution - or potentially allowing only some of the institutions in the system to interact with their students. (Taken from [[Roadmap/School Usage|http://
...led through the "Institution Trust Relationships" interface that allows an administrator to maintain reciprocal trust relationships between any institutions dir
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...on for the implementation pattern was source from [[Developer_Area/Core_Subsystems/Artefact_Plugins_%2F%2F_Artefact_Types]], and the [https://github.com/pie
== Mahara administrator ==
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...counts that cannot be found anymore are marked as “expired” automatically. Administrators can then view all expired accounts at /admin/users/suspended.php by ch
...ser data (artefacts and portfolio) should be archived before deletion, the administrators can click on the name of a user and make a full backup of this user's
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...f the new block, meaning that both sighted and blind users can use the new system - https://reviews.mahara.org/#/c/2957/
Administration -> Users used to use a custom JavaScript file for the paginator instea
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...the features like groups and the wall. In these cases, it would be good if administrators could disable or restrict who can use these features.
...many sites, it would make sense to restrict this ability to just staff and administrators.
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Log in Mahara as an administrator. <br /> Go to "Site Administration" > "Administer Extentions"<br /> Enable the Shibboleth plugin<br />
...each field you want/must to map to - username, first name, etc.<br /> For Administration and Staff membership enters the both the Shibboleth field's name and t
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...ove 'Watchlist notification delay' out of site options and into the plugin administration]
...institution membership joining notification when account is created by the system]
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