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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 – registration enrollment system settings (course level)


In addition to the site-wide settings used by the registration enrollment system, there is also a block that is used at the course level to override values and add additional priority periods to those set at the site-wide level. As we have already enrolled users in the courses we have created on our test site, we will create a new course, set it up to use the registration enrollment plugin, and use the Course Registration block to override some of the site-wide default values. Follow these steps to create the course and get it set up to use the Registration Enrollment plugin:

  1. Log in to your Moodle site as admin and click on the Show all courses link found at the bottom of the MyCourses block.

  2. From the subsequent Course Categories window, click on the Add a new course button found at the bottom of the page.

  3. Using the pull down menu, set the Category to Listening and give the course a Full name of Special Listening and a...