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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

Summary


In this chapter, we started by exploring how to set up an SIS via the use of user profile fields. We set up three fields and populated each with information and data for all of our student accounts and then explored various techniques for aggregating the information. In the second half of the chapter, we explored further customization of the Xataface database administration tool and demonstrated how Xataface can be used to modify information stored in tables in the Moodle database. We finished up with a basic demonstration of how the Xataface tool can also be used to function as an interface for a table in the Moodle database that is set up to function as a table used by the external database enrollment plugin. With some experimentation and imagination, the Xataface tool can serve as an important tool, that functions to greatly expand the CIMS capabilities of your Moodle site, by providing a useful backside access portal for educational administrators working in your program.