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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 – creating a Gradebook template


Next, we will set up a Gradebook complete with standardized categories that are used by every teacher in our program. For our example, we will be using Attendance and Final Exam as categories that are used by every teacher. Grading for these two categories is standardized as follows:

Attendance = 20% of a student's final grade

Final Exam = 40% of a student's final grade

Tip

In this example, the two categories only add up to 60 percent. The remaining 40 percent would be filled by individual teachers with other categories and items such as Participation, Quizzes, and so on.

  1. We will start by first creating the Gradebook template in the template course we used to set up the attendance template. Navigate to the attendance template course (AT-M-Th-1 in our example) and then click on the Grades link found in the Administration block. From the Choose an action... pull-down menu, select Full view found under Categories and items. From the subsequent Edit...