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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 – installing and using PHPMyAdmin


To download, install, and start using the PHPMyAdmin tool to give you direct access to the Moodle database, follow these steps:

  1. Download the latest version of the PHPMyAdmin tool from the Modules and Plugins page on Moodle.org.

  2. Search for PHPMyAdmin, click on the Name link and then on the Download latest version link found at the bottom-right of the plugin explanation page. (Note, the plugin title on Moodle.org is MySQL Admin)

  3. Unzip the downloaded package and place the directory, titled mysql, in the admin directory of your Moodle site located at /yourmoodleroot/admin.

  4. Log in to your site as admin and click on the Server link found in the Site Administration block.

  5. A Database link should appear at the bottom of the list of items under the Server category. Click on the Database link to access the PHPMyAdmin tool, as shown in the following screenshot (Note, if you were already logged in as admin when you installed the package, you may need to refresh...