Moodle documentation: Customizing help files

Moodle documentation: Customizing help files

by Mike Algozzine -
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We're considering customizing the Moodle help files to supplement other documentation we're publishing for our students and faculty. It seems easy enough to edit the associated HTML files in the various Moodle directories, but are we missing something? Is there more to it than that? Is this a common practice or do most people rely on other forms of self-help documentation?

What about customizing the Moodle Docs links at the bottom of each page? Could we selectively redirect some of those links to our own documentation, instead of the Moodle Docs pages? Of course, we could contribute to Moodle Docs as we see fit, but in some cases, we might want to take Moodle Docs out of the loop.

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In reply to Mike Algozzine

Re: Moodle documentation: Customizing help files

by Aaron Wells -

Hi,

You can use Moodle's "Language editing" feature to edit the help files (and other lang strings) through the admin screens, without directly editing code files. In the Moodle admin menu, go to Language->"Language editing". The documentation is online here: http://docs.moodle.org/en/Language_editing

I think the most you can customize the Moodle Docs links is to go to Appearance->"Moodle Docs", and there's a setting that lets you change the domain name that is used for Moodle Docs. You could probably point that at one your own servers where you keep your own custom Moodle docs, and set it up so that if you don't have a custom doc for a given path, it redirects to docs.moodle.org.

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