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This paper describes the development of a new Moodle plugin for uploading course files to the Moodle e-learning platform using command lines. The files will be uploaded to the course sections, which must then be available for viewing and downloading. The proposed goal is to develop a command line utility that will have three arguments: comma-separated course ids, the username of the person who will perform this operation, and the absolute location of the folder where the files needed to upload to desired courses. The utility will add all available files in that folder to past courses as an argument. The created Moodle plugin will be configured from the site administration according to the standard plugin installation procedure and the command lines will be executed from the command prompt. Simplify the process of transmitting files to the platform by using a computer level command. It eliminates the steps that were previously taken to authenticate and authorize access to the document transmission functionality. While actual Moodle platform spends up to 470 s for uploading of 5 files of 20 MB, our proposed method offers a time spending of only 5 s for these files.
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The article is financed by the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, through the project "PubArt" in online system, registered at the Ministry of Education from Romania.
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Baneș, V., Ravariu, C. (2023). Uploading Files to a Course Through the Command Line Run from Outside the Moodle e-Learning Platform. In: Auer, M.E., Pachatz, W., Rüütmann, T. (eds) Learning in the Age of Digital and Green Transition. ICL 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 634. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26190-9_101
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