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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

The Enhanced User Administration block


The Enhanced User Administration block was designed to be used by users who have been granted admin level access to a Moodle site. This tool allows a user to perform various actions including filtering, enrolling, deleting, and others, on his or her accounts on the site. It was originally contributed to the Moodle community to fill a gap that existed in the Moodle standard package. The most recent versions of Moodle 1.9 have however, added a very similar capability, called Bulk user actions, that is accessible via the Site Administration block by clicking on Users, Accounts, and then Bulk user actions. While very similar in design, the Enhanced User Administration block and Bulk user actions tools are not identical in design or function and it is thus beneficial to have access to both.