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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 – searching using PHPMyAdmin


In most cases, the filters that can be applied via the Bulk user actions tool are sufficient to allow you to obtain the students you are searching for in your system. In some cases however, it is much more efficient to search for the information directly using the PHPMyAdmin tool. One such case is when you have a large number of users in your system (several thousand or more) and wish to search using a numeric condition, such as greater than or equal to, using the profile fields. The Moodle core, as of 1.9.9+, does not perform this operation as efficiently as it should and executing such a command via the Bulk user actions tool can put a heavy enough load on your MySQL to cause it to freeze up. The Moodle development team is aware of this issue and it is scheduled to be fixed but it may take some time for it to be remedied as it is a minor issue compared to many of the other development projects they are working on. PHPMyAdmin can be used to perform...