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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have moved our Moodle site forward as a CIMS by first making small changes to three core file settings in order to modify the way categories are displayed, the way courses are displayed within categories, and to modify how many courses are displayed in a user's profile. These simple modifications enable us to better present a curriculum in a fashion that makes it easy to navigate and understand. We then installed the Content Pages block and set up several web pages inside our Moodle site with the block. Finally, we edited our third-party theme, Aardvark, in order to make the web pages we created easily accessible from the front page of our site. All of these tasks were performed with the purpose of adding an information 'skin' to our Moodle site that allows it to not only function as a VLE but also as an information portal for our educational program. In the next chapter, we will move inside the Moodle system and explore various methods for monitoring student...