Administering the platform

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To enter on the platform administration page :

• Click on Platform Administration at the top of your home page.
• Insert your administrator Username and Password.

Note : until Claroline 1.6 platform admin is protected by a .htaccess file
.htpassword contains the original login pass given on install.

You can edit it with a tool in admin/managing/addAdminInhtpassword.php

See :

• How_to_use_.htaccess_files_with_claroline?
• Secure_Admin_section

Table of contents

1 Platform configuration 2 Modify the home page text zones 3 Modules 4 See the platform statistics 5 Scan technical fault 6 Upgrade my Claroline

Platform configuration

This is the main page where you can change the configuration of...

...the whole platform

• Main settings
• Home page

...the courses

• Course options

...the users

• User profile options
• Users list

...the course tools

• Assignements
• Chat
• Documents and Links
• Exercises
• Forums
• Wiki

...the authentication

• Authentication
• Central Authentication System
• Single Sign On

...the groups

• Groups permissions

...the kernel

• Cache system
• Linker tool
• Rss (read and write) tool
• iCal generator

For every option, change the settings according to your needs and validate the changes.

See the video tutorial about the platform configuration (http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/docs/videos/en/Platform_configuration.htm).

Modify the home page text zones

• Go in the Administration section.
• Click on Home page text zones under Platform.
• Select the page you want to modify.
• Change it and save.
• Finally, click on Preview to see your modifications.

Modules

With the Modules system, you can build your own Claroline extension.

• Create or install your own tools for Claroline and share them with the community.
• Personalize your platform tools list by activating or deactivating existing tools, for all the courses at once.
• Personalize the existing banners and menu in Claroline by adding your own contents or links.

Examples of modules:

• "Who is online"
• A survey tool to create and use surveys in your courses
• A complete search engine based on phpdig, using xml based indexation and metadatas
• And lots of other tools to come..

See the video tutorial Install modules (http://www.claroline.net/dlarea/docs/videos/en/install_module.htm).

See the platform statistics

In the Administration section :

• Click on Platform statistics under Platform.
• Click on the statistics that you want to see (Platform, Access to campus, Access to courses, Access to tools)

Tips : click on Show all to see all statistics or Show none to hide all.

Scan technical fault

This options enables to find technical faults in the following categories :

• Accounts with the same users
• Accounts with the same e-mail
• Courses without a lecturer
• Courses without student
• Logins not used
• Accounts with same User name AND same Password
• Courses not used

Just click on the category to get the information you need.

Upgrade my Claroline

See this The Claroline upgrader to get a full step by step explanation about the upgrade procedure.