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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

Custom user profile fields


The ability to create custom user profile fields has existed since Moodle 1.8. This feature allows a site administrator to add fields that, when populated with information or data, can be assigned to chosen users in your system. For example, if you administer an assessment test in your program, you can upload students' test scores to profile fields. You can choose to allow students to see the field in their profile or can make it invisible so that only the site administrators will have access to the data. As you increase the amount of information that is incorporated into user profile fields, you will slowly be turning your Moodle site into a mini SIS. In the following explanation, we'll show you how to set up and utilize user profile fields and will also walk you through a couple of different methods of accessing the data from the perspective of an educational program administrator.