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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 – enrolling students when creating their accounts


We are going to create accounts for 500 students and enroll each student in two of our eighty courses that we created in Chapter 2, Building the Foundation—Creating Categories and Courses. I've chosen these numbers for our example in order to end up with each of the listening and speaking courses having an enrollment of 25 students. Real-world situations will, of course, vary depending upon registration policies, placement procedures, proficiency level variations, and any number of other factors unique to each educational program. Additionally, as we are setting up Moodle to function as a CIMS, we are operating under the assumption that all new students will have accounts created for them in the Moodle system. The creation process could be accomplished through a variety of procedures available within Moodle but for this example, we will use the Manual accounts setting and use a pre-formatted CSV (Comma-separated values) file...