Si te interesa la formación a distancia seguro ya conoces a Moodle. En este artículo aprende a integrar Moodle y WordPress.
What is Moodle?
Moodle is one of the platforms for online learning management or LMS (from English: learning management system) most used. This makes it possible to create and manage courses and classes remotely.
Si buscas aprender más acerca de las plataformas de Elearning nosotros creamos un post dedicado al tema:
The best plugins for Elearning platforms in WordPress
Instalando Moodle en WordPress a través de de cPanel PhpMyAdmin
There are several ways to integrate Moodle with WordPress. One of those forms of incorporation is through the cPanel.
Before entering cPanel you must download the most recent version of Moodle, puede hacerlo a través de de este link:
https://download.Moodle.org/releases/latest/
Download the file and keep it in reserve, we will use it shortly.
How to access cPanel?
This varies depending on the type of hosting that you have hired but the steps, in all cases, are very similar. Your provider hosting in the help section should have a video-tutorial or a step-by-step guide where they explain it. In our case to have access to cPanel we follow these steps:
- Escribimos nuestra dirección Web en la barra de direcciones de nuestro browser seguida de / cpanel, So:
thewebaddress.com/cpanel
- Then a window will open with the fields so that log in. The data from Username and password You must have sent the hosting provider to your email. Review or contact the supplier from service.
- Create a folder at root directory donde se encuentra instalado tu WorPress, puedes llamarla Moodle 1.
Warning
When you work with the archives of the root directory of your WordPress installation you have to be careful. And in the same way that we do when we make any modification, we recommend having a backup at hand.
If you do not know how to backup, here I tell you how:
Logging into PhpMyAdmin
- When you have entered cPanel find the section Databases and locate the PhpMyAdmin option.
cPanel> Databases> PhpMyAdmin
Creating database in PhpMyAdmin
- To create a database In PhpMyAdmin locate the option: "new", as shown in the image.
- We give it a name that we want, in this case we will call it Moodle 1 and in comparison we choose: utf8_general_ci.
- We press create.
Uploading Moodle to the root directory.
Now upload the installation file of Moodle to the folder we created in the first step. Unzip. Follow this direction to run the installer:
Yourdomain.com/Moodle 1
The installer will run and you will get Moodle installed alongside WordPress.
Of course, once you install Moodle you want to integrate it with your active WordPress website.
Integrate Moodle and WordPress
Just as WordPress is the best content manager web, Moodle is one of the best, if not the best, online teaching platform of how many exist. In this way integrating Moodle and WordPress is having the best of both worlds.
Es por ello que no es de extrañar que si ofreces un curso a través de de esta plataforma de enseñanza quieras ofrecerlo al mismo tiempo a los lectores de tu web o Blog of WordPress.
La mejor forma de integrar Moodle y WordPress es a traves de un plugin conocido como: Edwiser bridge.
Edwiser bridge
What this tool does is create, as the name suggests, a bridge between our courses created in Moodle and our WordPress website.
Edwiser Bridge is easy to use and we will save weather and work.
Of course, there are other similar tools in the plugin repository of WordPress but Edwiser Bridge is the best of what we have tried. That is why we recommend it.
What can Edwiser Bridge do?
With this plugin you will be able to:
- Connect tu curso con tu web con solo tener acceso la dirección dirección url and the access token, easy.
- One of the most appreciated functions is the possibility of to integrate WordPress users with Moodle users.
- Sell our courses manage and receive payments a través de de PayPal.
- At the same time it has multiple extensions. Like the one that makes it compatible with WooCommerce.
This plugin is freemiumIf you download it from its website or from your content manager's repository of tools, you can use it without paying anything. Of course, with certain limited functionalities.
What may be a downside is that, at the moment, it is only available in English. Although that will not be any inconvenience because easy you can translate the plugin with Poedit, as we teach you in:
How to translate a WordPress Plugin.
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