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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 – another Xataface security measure


Before we finish this chapter, there is one additional security measure that should be introduced in order to ensure that your Xataface application is safe. We earlier created our admin account in the dataface__users table in the database and entered a simple password. We should, of course, use a more complex password and certainly recommend doing so on a live production website. It is also recommended that passwords be stored in an encrypted format in the database to prevent them from being viewed by anyone who has access to the database, legitimate or otherwise. Moodle encrypts passwords prior to inserting them into the database and Xataface can do so as well. Setup password encryption for your Xataface users table by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to your Xataface application at yourmoodlesite/cims and log in using your admin account information: CIMS-Admin and 1234. Make sure you log in as admin before moving on to the next step. If...