ildemartinez / lms-explorer

Tool for Moodle Administrators. Can manage a lot of Moodle instances easily.

Introduction

LMS Explorer is a open source tool for Moodle administrators that deal with a lot of situations in the daily LMS management.

Features

• Fast locate course category and category at the LMS
• Fast jumping to course and users management pages ( user profile, course admninistration )
• Show all your Moodle courses from unique page

See it in action at https://www.st4makers.com/lms-explorer/

Installation

Just modify the config.ini_dist to config.ini and copy in the same executable path. Configure the host, username and password and a service if you create your own Moodle API Service Access

Running

You cant test it over your Moodle production instances but if you want to test it against a test Moodle instance you can deploy it using VirtualBox and https://bitnami.com/stack/moodle/virtual-machine

API Support

List of webservices https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Web_service_API_functions

you can find a postman collection to test the Moodle API Service

Configuring Moodle

You have to enable webservices and protocol to enable Moodle API so here goes some step that must be done:

You can build your own external service but you can start using the default installed Moodle mobile web service.

At this point you have a default service "moodle_mobile_app" that can be used as a REST service for this application but some API calls are not enabled in this service. For advanced use of LMS-Explorer you have to create your own service and enable more powerfull entry points.

You can create you own service as follows

⚠️ You should enable "Allow download files" in "Show more..." if you want the download course contents feature

Once created add functions and authorised users

Add your user

If you use the Moodle Admin, for securtiy reasons you have to create the access token from Moodle admin pane note: do not publish your token as I am doing (this is a local Moodle private instace)

And finally the exclusive functions for use in this tool

List of needed functions you need to enable in service functions:

Functions
core_course_get_categories
core_course_get_contents
core_course_get_courses
core_enrol_get_enrolled_users
core_group_get_course_groups
core_group_get_group_members
core_user_get_users
core_user_get_users_by_field
core_webservice_get_site_info
gradereport_user_get_grade_items

Features

You can find a course, catogory or even a Moodle instance using the filter box

Just right mouse click over a course, category or Moodle instance will open that element in default browser.

Double click on course opens the course form with the follow information. You can jump to your LMS with these shortcuts

Other info

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lms-explorer's Issues

create user using postman

Hai,
Thanks in Advance.
I am trying to create user through postman. How will be the process to achieve this?
Can you provide sample API for this
Thanks.