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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 – customizing the label area of the front page


Next, let's get rid of that big Moodle logo and replace it with a different graphic. Follow these steps to edit the image that appears on the front page:

  1. Click on the editing icon located at the bottom-left of the picture we want to remove and before clicking, notice that hovering your mouse over this icon makes the message Edit summary appear.

  2. After clicking you will see a screen titled Summary of Site with an HTML editor window that contains the information you saw on the front page. The image will probably not be visible but you can delete the text and image by selecting everything and deleting it.

  3. Next, enter the information you want to display on the front page. Use Welcome to the "Moodle as a CIMS" Demonstration Site for our test site.

  4. To add an image, click on the picture frame icon located in the menu bar of the HTML editor. The blue arrow is pointing to the insert image icon in the preceding screenshot. Hovering over this icon will make the Insert Image message appear. Clicking on the picture icon will make the Insert Image tool appear. You can provide an URL for the image you want to appear here but, unless you have a repository of images already up on the Internet, the easiest way to use this tool is to click on the Browse... button located at the bottom of the window and then locate and select an image from your computer.

  5. After selecting the image, click on the Upload button. The image file name will now be displayed in the File Browser list and clicking on the file name will make the image appear in the Preview pane on the right.

  6. Clicking on the file name will also automatically enter the URL. Below the URL enter alternative text to be displayed when hovering over the image.

  7. Finally, click on OK and the image will appear in the HTML editor window as shown in the following screenshot. Click on the Save changes button and you will be redirected back to the front page of your site and will be able to see the new description and image.

What just happened?

You just changed the image that appears in the top-center section of your Moodle site by deleting the old image and uploading a new image in its place. We did this by accessing the Summary of Site page and it also gave us a chance to use the Insert Image tool.