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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

Implementing a final grade submission process


Most educational institutions have grading policies and procedures that can be incorporated into your Moodle site relatively easily, as we have just observed. Additionally, most institutions require their teachers to submit grades when courses or terms are complete. In recent days, this submission process often includes an online or electronic component in addition to a paper-based component. In these 'dual-submission' systems, the paper-based component usually serves as a backup hard copy. The following is an explanation of one way that Moodle can be utilized in the grade submission process. This method assumes that we have set up Moodle to function as a CIMS, meaning that all courses in a program are created in the Moodle site and students and teachers are properly enrolled in those courses.

The policy

Regardless of whether instructors choose to use the Moodle GradeBook to calculate, and display grades to their students, it can be used to record...