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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

Chapter 8. Setting Up a Mini SIS

It is important for an educational program to maintain a wide variety of data related to each of the students matriculating through the program. This data can range from personal contact information to information about a student's performance in classes. The data, in the case of many schools, might include a student's grade point average, his or her test scores, as well as contact information for parents or guardians and may even include things such as a student's blood type and information about allergies. A Student Information System (SIS) is a computer-based system that organizes all of this data, and more, and makes it easy to access for administrators and teachers. Moodle is not designed specifically to function as an SIS but as much of the data that is often included in an SIS already exists in the Moodle database, it's not that difficult to bend Moodle to meet our needs.

In this chapter, we will explore two different methods of setting up Moodle...