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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 – installation and use of the Enhanced User Admin block


Installing the Enhanced User Admin block is a process very similar to the installation of other packages, such as themes and modules, that has been previously explained in this book. To install the block follow these steps:

  1. Download the block from Moodle.org from the Modules and Plugins page, as shown in the following screenshot. Note that there is one other user administration block available from Moodle.org titled simply User Administration. Use the Enhanced User Administration (block) to obtain the functionality that will be presented here.

  2. Download the block package by first clicking on the Name link and then on the Download latest version link found in the bottom-right corner of the explanation window, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Unzip the package that was downloaded to your computer.

  4. If the name of the unzipped directory is useradmin19, change it to simply useradmin.

  5. Copy the useradmin folder to the blocks...