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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 – removing course lists from the category page


The first of these such 'tweaks' is to change how the Course category page is displayed. It is important to note that this will involve making a small change to the core Moodle code. This will mean that when you upgrade your Moodle instance to a newer version, you will need to make this adjustment again in the new version. Ideally, you should keep adjustments like this, sometimes called hacks, to a minimum as they can complicate the upgrade process. Always keep a record of the changes you make so that you can easily transfer them to your new instance of Moodle when you upgrade. Additionally, if your adjustment involves a feature that you feel should really be a part of the Moodle core complete with an adjustable setting via the Moodle browser interface, please make the request via the Moodle Tracker found at http://tracker.moodle.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa.

To see the page display that we are going to modify, navigate to the following...