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Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System

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Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System

Overview of this book

Moodle is the most widely used Learning Management System in the world. Moodle is primarily used as an online learning course platform and few people know how to use it in any other way. However, Moodle can also be used as a management system. By adapting Moodle to become a curriculum and information management system, you can keep your administrative tasks in the same place as your lesson plans by managing student attendance records, recording grades, sharing reports between departments, and much more Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System will show you how you can use Moodle to set up an environment that enables you to disseminate information about your educational program, provides a forum for communication amongst all those involved in your institution, and even allows you to control your course registration and enrollment. This book is written on version 1.9 and also includes examples applicable to version 2.0. This book will show you how to create courses and organize them into categories. You will learn to assign teachers to each course, which will greatly help you to manage timetables and student enrolment, which can otherwise be a very frustrating and time consuming task. You will learn how to display the different aspects of your Curriculum and Information Management System to make it easily accessible and navigable for staff and students alike, ensuring that everyone knows what they are doing and where they are meant to be.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – enroll existing users


Once you have formatted the spreadsheet with the appropriate information and saved it in CSV format, the file may be used to enroll existing users via the use of the same Upload users page we used for account creation. Follow these steps to enroll existing users using the file we just formatted:

  1. Access the Upload users page via the following path: Front page of your site, Site Administration | Users | Accounts | Upload users.

  2. From the Upload users page, to enroll existing users in courses, click on Browse to locate and select your enrollment CSV file.

  3. After selecting your CSV file, click on the Upload users button.

  4. From the window displaying the first ten records from your file and the Settings and Default values settings areas, change the Upload type to Update existing users only.

  5. The other default values in the Settings area can be left alone for our task.

  6. Do not adjust any of the Default values settings as we have specified that no changes are to be made...