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  19 <h1>Installing Moodle</h1>
  20 <h2>Dont panic! <img src="http://moodle.org/pix/s/smiley.gif" /></h2>
  21 <blockquote>
  22   <p>This guide explains how to install Moodle for the first time.  For some of these steps it goes into a lot of detail to try and cover the majority of possible
  23      web server setups, so this document may look long and complicated.  Don't panic, once you know how to do it you can install Moodle in minutes!</p>
  24   <p>If you have problems please read this document carefully - most common issues are answered in here.
  25      If you still have trouble, you can seek help from
  26    <a target="_blank" href="http://moodle.org/help">Moodle Help</a></p>
  27   <p>Another option is to contact a <a target="_blank" href="http://moodle.com/hosting/">web hosting company</a>
  28      who can completely maintain Moodle for you, so that you can ignore all this and get straight into educating!
  29 </p>
  30   <p>&nbsp;  </p>
  31   <p>Sections in this document:</p>
  32   <ol>
  33     <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
  34     <li><a href="#downloading">Download and copy files into place</a> </li>
  35     <li><a href="#site">Site structure</a></li>
  36     <li><a href="#installer">Run the installer script to create config.php</a>      <ul>
  37         <li><a href="#webserver">Check web server settings</a></li>
  38         <li><a href="#database">Creating a database</a></li>
  39         <li><a href="#data">Creating a data directory</a></li>
  40         </ul>
  41     </li>
  42     <li><a href="#admin">Go to the admin page to continue configuration</a></li>
  43     <li><a href="#cron">Set up cron</a></li>
  44     <li><a href="#course">Create a new course</a></li>
  45      </ol>
  46   <p>&nbsp;</p>
  47 </blockquote>
  48 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="requirements"></a>1. Requirements</h3>
  49 <blockquote>
  50   <p>Moodle is primarily developed in Linux using Apache, MySQL and PHP (also
  51     sometimes known as the LAMP platform), but is also regularly tested with PostgreSQL
  52     and on Windows XP, Mac OS X and Netware 6 operating systems</p>
  53   <p>The requirements for Moodle are as follows:</p>
  54   <ol>
  55     <li>Web server software. Most people use <a href="http://www.apache.org/" target="_blank">Apache</a>,
  56       but Moodle should work fine under any web server that supports PHP, such
  57       as IIS on Windows platforms.</li>
  58     <li><a href="http://www.php.net/" target="_blank">PHP</a> scripting language (version 4.1.0
  59       or later). PHP 5 is supported as of Moodle 1.4. </li>
  60     <li>a working database server: <a href="http://www.mysql.com/" target="_blank">MySQL</a>
  61       or <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/" target="_blank">PostgreSQL</a> are
  62       completely supported and recommended for use with Moodle. </li>
  63   </ol>
  64   <p>Most web hosts support all of this by default. If you are signed up with
  65     one of the few webhosts that does not support these features ask them why,
  66     and consider taking your business elsewhere.</p>
  67   <p>If you want to run Moodle on your own computer and all this looks a bit daunting,
  68     then please see our guide: <a href="http://moodle.org/doc/?file=installamp.html">Installing
  69     Apache, MySQL and PHP</a>. It provides some step-by-step instructions to install
  70     all this on most popular platforms.</p>
  71   <p>&nbsp;</p>
  72 </blockquote>
  73 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="downloading"></a>2. Download and copy files into place </h3>
  74 <blockquote>
  75   <p>There are two ways to get Moodle, as a compressed package and via CVS. These
  76     are explained in detail on the download page: <a href="http://moodle.org/download/" target="_blank">http://moodle.org/download/</a></p>
  77   <p>After downloading and unpacking the archive, or checking out the files via
  78     CVS, you will be left with a directory called &quot;moodle&quot;, containing
  79     a number of files and folders.</p>
  80   <p>You can either place the whole folder in your web server documents directory,
  81     in which case the site will be located at <b>http://yourwebserver.com/moodle</b>,
  82     or you can copy all the contents straight into the main web server documents
  83     directory, in which case the site will be simply <b>http://yourwebserver.com</b>.</p>
  84   <p>If you are downloading Moodle to your local computer and then uploading it to your web site, it is usually better to upload the whole archive as one file, and then do the unpacking on the server. Even web hosting interfaces like Cpanel allow you to uncompress archives in the &quot;File Manager&quot;. </p>
  85 </blockquote>
  86 <p>&nbsp;</p>
  87 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="site"></a>3. Site structure</h3>
  88 <blockquote>
  89   <p>You can safely skip this section, but here is a quick summary of the contents of the Moodle folder, to help get
  90     you oriented:</p>
  91   <blockquote>
  92     <table><tr>
  93       <td width="130" valign="top">config.php</td>
  94       <td valign="top">-</td>
  95       <td valign="top">
  96         contains basic settings. This file does not come with Moodle - you will create it. </td>
  97     </tr>
  98       <tr>
  99         <td valign="top">install.php</td>
 100         <td valign="top">-</td>
 101         <td valign="top">the script you will run to create config.php </td>
 102       </tr>
 103       <tr><td valign="top">version.php</td>
 104       <td valign="top">-</td>
 105       <td valign="top">
 106         defines the current version of Moodle code
 107       </td></tr>
 108       <tr><td valign="top">index.php</td>
 109       <td valign="top">-</td>
 110       <td valign="top">
 111         the front page of the site
 112       </td></tr></table>
 113     <ul>
 114       <li>admin/ - code to administrate the whole server </li>
 115       <li>auth/ - plugin modules to authenticate users </li>
 116       <li>blocks/ - plugin modules for the little side blocks on many pages</li>
 117       <li>calendar/ - all the code for managing and displaying calendars</li>
 118       <li>course/ - code to display and manage courses </li>
 119       <li>doc/ - help documentation for Moodle (eg this page)</li>
 120       <li>files/ - code to display and manage uploaded files</li>
 121       <li>lang/ - texts in different languages, one directory per language </li>
 122       <li>lib/ - libraries of core Moodle code </li>
 123       <li>login/ - code to handle login and account creation </li>
 124       <li>mod/ - all the main Moodle course modules are in here </li>
 125       <li>pix/ - generic site graphics</li>
 126       <li>theme/ - theme packs/skins to change the look of the site.</li>
 127       <li>user/ - code to display and manage users</li>
 128     </ul>
 129     <p>&nbsp;</p>
 130   </blockquote>
 131 </blockquote>
 132 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="installer"></a>4. Run the Installer script to create config.php </h3>
 133 <blockquote>
 134   <p>To run the installer script (install.php), just try to access your Moodle main URL using a web browser, or access <strong>http://yourserver/install.php</strong> directly. </p>
 135   <p>(The Installer will try to set a session cookie. If you get a popup warning in your browser make sure you accept that cookie!) </p>
 136   <p>Moodle will detect that configuration is necessary and will lead you through some screens to help you create a new configuration file called <strong>config.php. </strong>At the end of the process Moodle will try and write the file into the right location, otherwise you can press a button to download it from the installer and then upload config.php into the main Moodle directory on the server. </p>
 137   <p>Along the way the installer will test your server environment and give you suggestions about how to fix any problems. For most common issues these suggestions should be sufficient, but if you get stuck, look below for more information about some of common things that might be holding you up. <br />
 138   </p>
 139 </blockquote>
 140 <blockquote>
 141
 142 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="webserver" id="webserver"></a>4.1 General web server settings </h3>
 143   <blockquote>
 144     <p>Firstly, make sure that your web server is set up to use index.php as a default
 145       page (perhaps in addition to index.html, default.htm and so on).</p>
 146     <p>In Apache, this is done using a DirectoryIndex parameter in your httpd.conf
 147       file. Mine usually looks like this:</p>
 148     <blockquote>
 149       <pre><strong>DirectoryIndex</strong> index.php index.html index.htm </pre>
 150     </blockquote>
 151     <p>Just make sure index.php is in the list (and preferably towards the start
 152       of the list, for efficiency).</p>
 153     <p>Secondly, <b>if you are using Apache 2</b>, then you should turn on the <i>AcceptPathInfo</i>
 154        variable, which allows scripts to be passed arguments like http://server/file.php/arg1/arg2.
 155        This is essential to allow relative links between your resources, and also
 156        provides a performance boost for people using your Moodle web site.  You can
 157        turn this on by adding these lines to your httpd.conf file.</p>
 158     <blockquote>
 159       <pre><strong>AcceptPathInfo</strong> on </pre>
 160     </blockquote>
 161     <p>Thirdly, Moodle requires a number of PHP settings to be active for it to
 162        work.  <b>On most servers these will already be the default settings.</b>
 163        However, some PHP servers (and some of the more recent PHP versions) may
 164        have things set differently.  These are defined in PHP's configuration
 165        file (usually called php.ini):</p>
 166     <blockquote>
 167       <pre>magic_quotes_gpc = 1    (preferred but not necessary)
 168 magic_quotes_runtime = 0    (necessary)
 169 file_uploads = 1
 170 session.auto_start = 0
 171 session.bug_compat_warn = 0
 172   </pre>
 173     </blockquote>
 174     <p>If you don't have access to httpd.conf or php.ini on your server, or you
 175       have Moodle on a server with other applications that require different settings,
 176       then don't worry, you can often still OVERRIDE the default settings.
 177     </p>
 178     <p>To do this, you need to create a file called <b>.htaccess</b> in Moodle's
 179        main directory that contains lines like the following.
 180        This only works on Apache servers and only when Overrides have been allowed in the main configuration. </p>
 181     <blockquote>
 182       <pre>
 183 DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
 184
 185 &lt;IfDefine APACHE2>
 186      <b>AcceptPathInfo</b> on
 187 &lt;/IfDefine>
 188
 189 php_flag magic_quotes_gpc 1
 190 php_flag magic_quotes_runtime 0
 191 php_flag file_uploads 1
 192 php_flag session.auto_start 0
 193 php_flag session.bug_compat_warn 0</pre>
 194     </blockquote>
 195     <p>You can also do things like define the maximum size for uploaded files:
 196
 197 </p>
 198     <blockquote>
 199       <pre>
 200 LimitRequestBody 0
 201 php_value upload_max_filesize 2M
 202 php_value post_max_size 2M
 203      </pre>
 204     </blockquote>
 205     <p>The easiest thing to do is just copy the sample file from <strong>lib/htaccess</strong>      and edit it to suit your needs.  It contains further instructions.  For
 206       example, in a Unix shell:
 207    </p>
 208     <blockquote>
 209       <pre>cp lib/htaccess .htaccess</pre>
 210     </blockquote>
 211   </blockquote>
 212 <p>&nbsp;</p>
 213 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="database"></a>4.2 Creating a database</h3>
 214
 215   <blockquote>
 216     <p>You need to create an empty database (eg "<em>moodle</em>") in your database system
 217       along with a special user (eg "moodleuser") that has access to that database
 218       (and that database only). You could use the "root" user if you wanted to for a test server, but
 219       this is not recommended for a production system: if hackers manage to discover
 220       the password then your whole database system would be at risk, rather than
 221       just one database. </p>
 222     <p>If you are using a webhost, they will probably have a control panel web interface for you to create your database. </p>
 223     <p>The <strong>Cpanel</strong> system is  one of the most popular of these. To create a database in Cpanel, </p>
 224     <ol>
 225       <li>Click on the &quot;<strong>MySQL Databases</strong>&quot; icon.</li>
 226       <li>Type &quot;moodle&quot; in the database field and click &quot;<strong>Add Database</strong>&quot;.</li>
 227       <li> Type a username and password (not one you use elsewhere) in the respective fields and click &quot;<strong>Add User</strong>&quot;.</li>
 228       <li> Now use the &quot;<strong>Add User to Database</strong>&quot; button to give this new user account &quot;<strong>ALL</strong>&quot; rights to the new database.</li>
 229       <li>Note that the username and database names may be prefixed by your Cpanel account name. When entering this information into the Moodle installer - use the full names.</li>
 230     </ol>
 231     <p>If you have access to Unix command lines then you can do the same sort of thing by typing commands. </p>
 232     <p>Here are some example Unix command lines for MySQL: </p>
 233     <pre>
 234    # mysql -u root -p
 235    > CREATE DATABASE moodle;
 236    > GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE,CREATE,DROP,INDEX,ALTER ON moodle.*
 237            TO moodleuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpassword';
 238    > quit
 239    # mysqladmin -p reload
 240     </pre>
 241     <p>And some example command lines for PostgreSQL: </p>
 242     <pre>
 243    # su - postgres
 244    > psql -c "create user moodleuser createdb;" template1
 245    > psql -c "create database moodle;" -U moodleuser template1
 246    > psql -c "alter user moodleuser nocreatedb;" template1</pre>
 247   </blockquote>
 248   <p>&nbsp;</p>
 249
 250 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="data"></a>4.3 Creating a data directory </h3>
 251
 252   <blockquote>
 253     <p>Moodle will also need some space on your server's hard disk to store uploaded files, such as course documents and user pictures. </p>
 254     <p>The Moodle installer tries hard to create this directory for you but if it fails then you will have to create a directory for this purpose manually. </p>
 255     <p>For security, it's best that this directory is NOT accessible directly via the web. The easiest way to do this is to simply locate it OUTSIDE the web directory, but if you must have it in the web directory then  protect it by creating a file in the data directory called .htaccess, containing this line: </p>
 256     <blockquote>
 257       <pre>deny from all<br />AllowOverride None</pre>
 258     </blockquote>
 259     <p>To make sure that Moodle can save uploaded files in this directory, check that the web server software (eg Apache) has permission to read, write and execute in  this directory. </p>
 260     <p>On Unix machines, this means setting the owner of the directory to be something like &quot;nobody&quot; or &quot;apache&quot;, and then giving that user read, write and execute permissions.</p>
 261     <p>On Cpanel systems you can use the &quot;File Manager&quot; to find the folder, click on it, then choose &quot;Change Permissions&quot;. On many shared hosting servers, you will probably need to restrict all file access to your "group" (to prevent other webhost customers from looking at or changing your files), but provide full read/write access to everyone else (which will allow the web server to access your files). </p>
 262     <p>Speak to your server administrator if you are having trouble setting this up securely. In particular some sites that use a PHP feature known as &quot;Safe Mode&quot; may <em>require</em> the administrator to create this directory properly for you. </p>
 263   </blockquote>
 264
 265 </blockquote>
 266
 267
 268 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="admin"></a>5. Go to the admin page to continue configuration </h3>
 269 <blockquote>
 270   <p>Once the basic <strong>config.php</strong> has been correctly created in the previous step, trying to access the front page of your site will take you the &quot;admin&quot; page for the rest of the configuration.</p>
 271   <p>The first time you access this admin page, you will be presented with
 272     a GPL &quot;shrinkwrap&quot; agreement with which you <strong>must</strong> agree before you
 273   can continue with the setup.</p>
 274   <p>Now Moodle will start setting up your database and creating tables to store
 275     data. Firstly, the main database tables are created. You should see a number
 276     of SQL statements followed by status messages (in green or red) that look
 277     like this:</p>
 278   <blockquote>
 279     <p>CREATE TABLE course ( id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, category
 280       int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', password varchar(50) NOT NULL default
 281       '', fullname varchar(254) NOT NULL default '', shortname varchar(15) NOT
 282       NULL default '', summary text NOT NULL, format tinyint(4) NOT NULL default
 283       '1', teacher varchar(100) NOT NULL default 'Teacher', startdate int(10)
 284       unsigned NOT NULL default '0', enddate int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default
 285       '0', timemodified int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', PRIMARY KEY (id))
 286       TYPE=MyISAM</p>
 287     <p><font color="#006600">SUCCESS</font></p>
 288   </blockquote>
 289   <p>...and so on, followed by: <font color="#006600">Main databases set up
 290       successfully.</font> </p>
 291   <blockquote>
 292     <p class="style3">If you don't see these, then there must have been some problem with the database
 293         or the configuration settings you defined in config.php. Check that PHP isn't
 294         in a restricted "Safe Mode" (commercial web hosts sometimes have safe mode
 295         turned on). You can check PHP variables by creating a little file containing <strong>&lt;?php phpinfo() ?&gt;</strong> and looking at it through a browser. Check all these and
 296       try this page again.</p>
 297   </blockquote>
 298   <p>Scroll down the very bottom of the page and press the &quot;Continue&quot;
 299     link.</p>
 300   <p>You should now see a form where you can define more configuration variables
 301     for your installation, such as the default language, SMTP hosts and so on.
 302     Don't worry too much about getting everything right just now - you can always
 303     come back and edit these later on using the admin interface. The defaults are designed to be useful and secure for most sites. Scroll down to
 304     the bottom and click &quot;Save changes&quot;.</p>
 305   <blockquote>
 306     <p class="style3">If (and only if) you find yourself getting stuck on this page, unable to
 307       continue, then your server probably has what I call the "buggy referrer" problem.
 308       This is easy to fix: just turn off the &quot;secureforms&quot; setting, then
 309       try to continue again.</p>
 310   </blockquote>
 311   <p>Next you will see more  pages that print lots of status messages as they set up all the tables required by the various Moodle module. As before, they should all be <font color="#006600">green</font>.</p>
 312   <p>Scroll down the very bottom of the page and press the &quot;Continue&quot; link.</p>
 313   <p>The next page is a form where you can define parameters for your Moodle site
 314     and the front page, such as the name, format, description and so on. Fill
 315     this out (you can always come back and change these later) and then press
 316     &quot;Save changes&quot;.</p>
 317   <p>Finally, you will then be asked to create a top-level administration user
 318     for future access to the admin pages. Fill out the details with your own name,
 319     email etc and then click &quot;Save changes&quot;. Not all the fields are
 320     required, but if you miss any important fields you'll be re-prompted for them.
 321   </p>
 322   <blockquote>
 323     <blockquote>
 324       <blockquote>
 325         <blockquote>
 326           <blockquote>
 327             <p><strong>Make sure you remember the username and password you chose
 328               for the administration user account, as they will be necessary to
 329               access the administration page in future.</strong></p>
 330           </blockquote>
 331         </blockquote>
 332       </blockquote>
 333     </blockquote>
 334     <p class="style3">(If for any reason your install is interrupted, or there is a system error
 335       of some kind that prevents you from logging in using the admin account, you
 336       can usually log in using the default username of &quot;<strong>admin</strong>&quot;,
 337       with password &quot;<strong>admin</strong>&quot;.)</p>
 338   </blockquote>
 339   <p>Once successful, you will be returned to the home page of your new site! Note the
 340     administration links that appear down the left hand side of the page (these
 341     items also appear on a separate Admin page) - these items are only visible
 342     to you because you are logged in as the admin user. All your further administration
 343     of Moodle can now be done using this menu, such as:</p>
 344   <ul>
 345     <li>creating and deleting courses</li>
 346     <li>creating and editing user accounts</li>
 347     <li>administering teacher accounts</li>
 348     <li>changing site-wide settings like themes etc</li>
 349   </ul>
 350   <p>But you are not done installing yet! There is one very important thing still to do (see the next section on cron). </p>
 351 </blockquote>
 352 <p>&nbsp;</p>
 353 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="cron"></a>6. Set up cron -- IMPORTANT! </h3>
 354 <blockquote>
 355   <p>Some of Moodle's modules require continual checks to perform tasks. For example,
 356     Moodle needs to check the discussion forums so it can mail out copies of posts
 357     to people who have subscribed.</p>
 358   <p>The script that does all this is located in the admin directory, and is called
 359     cron.php. However, it can not run itself, so you need to set up a mechanism
 360     where this script is run regularly (eg every five or ten minutes). This provides
 361     a &quot;heartbeat&quot; so that the script can perform functions at periods
 362     defined by each module. This kind of regular mechanism is known as a <strong>cron service</strong>. </p>
 363   <p>Note that the machine performing the cron <b>does not need to be the same
 364     machine that is running Moodle</b>. For example, if you have a limited web
 365     hosting service that does not have a cron service, then you can might choose to run
 366     cron on another server or on your home computer. All that matters is that
 367     the cron.php file is called regularly. </p>
 368   <p>The load of this script is not very high, so 5 minutes is usually reasonable,
 369     but if you're worried about it you can reduce the time period to something
 370     like 15 minutes or even 30 minutes. It's best not to make the time period
 371     too long, as delaying mail-outs can slow down activity within the course.</p>
 372   <p>First, test that the script works by running it directly from your browser:</p>
 373   <blockquote>
 374     <pre>http://example.com/moodle/admin/cron.php</pre>
 375   </blockquote>
 376   <p>Now, you need to set up some of way of running the script automatically and
 377     regularly.</p>
 378   <p><b>On Windows systems</b></p>
 379   <blockquote>
 380     <p>The simplest way is to use this little package <a href="http://moodle.org/download/modules/moodle-cron-for-windows.zip" title="Click to download this package (150k)" target="_blank"><strong>moodle-cron-for-windows.zip</strong></a> which makes this whole thing very easy by installing a small Windows service. Run it and forget about it!</p>
 381   </blockquote>
 382   <p><strong>On web hosting services</strong></p>
 383   <blockquote>
 384     <p> Your web-based control panel may have a web page that allows you to set up this cron process. For example, on Cpanel system, look for a button called &quot;Cron jobs&quot;. In there you can put the same sort of Unix commands as listed below. </p>
 385   </blockquote>
 386   <h4> Using the command line on Unix </h4>
 387   <blockquote>
 388     <p>There are different command line programs you can use to call the page from the command line. Not all of them may be available on a given server.</p>
 389     <p>For example, you can use a Unix utility like 'wget':</p>
 390     <blockquote>
 391       <pre>wget -q -O /dev/null http://example.com/moodle/admin/cron.php</pre>
 392     </blockquote>
 393     <p>Note in this example that the output is thrown away (to /dev/null).</p>
 394     <p>The same thing using lynx:</p>
 395     <blockquote>
 396       <pre>lynx -dump http://example.com/moodle/admin/cron.php &gt; /dev/null</pre>
 397     </blockquote>
 398     <p>Alternatively you could use a standalone version of PHP, compiled to be run
 399       on the command line. The advantage with doing this is that your web server
 400       logs aren't filled with constant requests to cron.php. The disadvantage is
 401       that you need to have access to a command-line version of php.</p>
 402     <blockquote>
 403       <pre>/opt/bin/php /web/moodle/admin/cron.php
 404
 405     </pre>
 406     </blockquote>
 407   </blockquote>
 408   <h4>Using the crontab program on Unix </h4>
 409   <blockquote>
 410     <p> All that Cpanel does is provide a web interface to a Unix utility known as crontab. If you have a command line, you can set up crontab yourself using the command:</p>
 411     <blockquote>
 412       <pre>crontab -e</pre>
 413    </blockquote>
 414    <p>and then adding one of the above commands like:</p>
 415     <blockquote>
 416       <pre>*/5 * * * * wget -q -O /dev/null http://example.com/moodle/admin/cron.php</pre>
 417     </blockquote>
 418     <p>Usually, the "crontab" command will put you into the 'vi' editor. You enter
 419      "insert mode" by pressing "i", then type in the line as above, then exit insert mode by
 420          pressing ESC.  You save and exit by typing ":wq", or quit without saving using ":q!" (without the quotes).</p>
 421   </blockquote>
 422   <p>&nbsp;</p>
 423 </blockquote>
 424 <h3 class="sectionheading"><a name="course"></a>7. Create a new course</h3>
 425 <blockquote>
 426   <p>Now that Moodle is running properly, you can try creating a new course to play with. </p>
 427   <p>Select &quot;Create a new course&quot; from the Admin page (or the admin
 428     links on the home page).</p>
 429   <p>Fill out the form, paying special attention to the course format. You don't
 430     have to worry about the details too much at this stage, as everything can
 431     be changed later by the teacher. Note that the yellow help icons are everywhere to provide contextual help on any aspect. </p>
 432   <p>Press &quot;Save changes&quot;, and you will be taken to a new form where
 433     you can assign teachers to the course. You can only add existing user accounts
 434     from this form - if you want to create a new teacher account then either ask
 435     the teacher to create one for themselves (see the login page), or create one
 436     for them using the &quot;Add a new user&quot; on the Admin page.</p>
 437   <p>Once done, the course is ready to customise, and is accessible via the &quot;Courses&quot;
 438     link on the home page.</p>
 439   <p>See the &quot;<a href="./?file=teacher.html">Teacher Manual</a>&quot; for more details
 440     on course-building.</p>
 441   <p>&nbsp;</p>
 442   <p align="center"><strong>Happy exploring and happy Moodling!</strong></p>
 443   <p align="center"><strong>If you like Moodle, please consider <a href="http://moodle.org/donations/" target="_blank">donating</a> to help us cover our costs! </strong></p>
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