Moodle 3.x Developer's Guide

Introducing the project

Now is the time to introduce the project we will be developing as we work through this book. The project brief is to develop a learning platform to promote research into societal and economic resilience. The Moodle instance we will be working on forms part of a much larger product landscape; so, it is vital that the Moodle we will be helping to develop integrates seamlessly into this landscape. Not only that, but there are features required of the e-learning platform itself that a vanilla Moodle doesn't support. For that, we will need to develop features to support learner management (one requirement is that authentication is via WordPress), course management (for example, access to materials based on your location), ...