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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

Permissions and roles


We referenced system roles earlier when we talked about enrolling users in courses as students, or when other users were enrolled in courses as teachers, and also each time you are directed to log in to your site as admin. These roles (student, teacher, and admin) are three of the seven default roles that exist in a default installation of Moodle. From the front page of your site, click on the Define roles link found in the Site Administration block inside the Users and then Permissions directories, as shown in the following screenshot:

The seven default roles, as shown in the following screenshot, are Administrator, Course creator, Teacher, Non-editing teacher, Student, Guest, and Authenticated user. Each of these roles has an extended set of permission settings, also known as capabilities, that control what each user assigned with each specific role is allowed to do within different areas of the site, also known as contexts.

Click on one of the role names to view...