Book Image

Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System

Book Image

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 – adding links to the submenu items


The final step in this process is to add link destinations for all of the menu items that appear as links. This includes the eight items that appear in the submenu window as well as the Program and other menu items in the menu bar. Links to pages we have created with the Content Pages block as well as to any other location in your Moodle site or to an external site are possible. To insert the links, follow these steps:

  1. With your text editor, again open the file we just edited found at yourmoodledirectory/theme/aardvark_pro/aardvark_menu.php.

  2. Add links to the code from approximately lines 43 to 57 as shown in the following code snippet. For the submenu items, adding a link is as simple as copying and pasting a link between the quotation marks that appear after the href= code. One simple way to copy a link is by navigating to the desired page with your browser and copying the link from the address bar. To add a link to the menu item, remove...