Visvanath Ratnaweera

OK. If the whole thing is still vapour, there is enough time for fundamental questions. The very loud one I have is, shouldn't these 8 year old kids play in the analog world? I consider it (still) much healthier.

Now that out of the way, what you are planning is a gaming platform running Moodle. Why not? Why are you so worried about the privacy laws? Just don't collect any private data! The obvious way of doing is to allow pseudonyms and don't require any (real) e-mail. The scary "self-registration with no e-mail confirmation" https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=354562#p1455304 mentioned earlier does exactly that.

Well, until the kid forgets its password. Then it has to re-register with a different pseudonym. The points scored earlier are lost. Make that also a part of the game: Either remember your pseudonym and password or back to square one.

May be you mean the "General" section with URLs like yoursite/course/view.php?id=N#section-0. These appear only in https://docs.moodle.org/en/Courses. The https://docs.moodle.org/en/Front_page which is just yoursite/ is different. It doesn't have sections, only a selection of blocks, which you can move around, remove, etc. A complication there, by default yoursite/ will redirect to yoursite/my/, which we call the https://docs.moodle.org/en/Dashboard. If you want the site home page to be the same for everybody, you have to flip a switch to make the site home the front page mentioned above.

Welcome to the unified world of Moodle 4! https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=424856

P.S. Don't ask me what the conclusion of those 72 forum posts is. I see everything in double and triple.

Ha, ha, ha! That's good one!

@all

Due to lack of evidence otherwise, I maintain that MariaDB 10.5 is the maximum version for Moodle since version 3.5 LTS. See http://www.syndrega.ch/blog/#php-and-dbms-compatibility-of-major-moodle-releases. I am open for corrections.