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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 – creating and using the Parental Monitor role


For this example, we are going to use the Parental Monitor role title. To set up and use this role, which will allow parents to monitor their child's activity, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your site as admin and click on the Define roles link found by clicking on Users and then Permissions from inside the Site Administration block, as explained earlier in this chapter.

  2. Click on the Add a new role button to open the Add a new role window and enter a Name, Short name, and Description, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Set the following Permissions to Allow:

    • System: Edit own user profile

    • Users: Edit user profile

    • Users: See all user blogs

    • Users: See all user posts

    • Users: See user activity reports

  4. After changing the permission settings, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Add a new role button.

What just happened?

We have just created a role that will be assigned to a parent allowing the parent to view some of the activities...