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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 10. Advanced Enrollment Plugin

Almost all educational programs that organize a series, or set of courses into a curriculum, also establish and enforce rules about how a student may matriculate through the courses. Colleges and universities, for example, design a curriculum such that more advanced level courses are taken by students who are in their junior and senior years and who have already completed more basic prerequisite courses in their earlier years. Likewise, programs within an educational institution, such as language education programs, dictate which courses students may take based upon the students' levels. For example, a student who is studying Spanish for the first time would take an entry level course while a different student, who has mastered the basics and even studied abroad in a Spanish-speaking country, would take a more advanced level Spanish course. Additionally, most educational institutions set course capacity limits, especially for courses that include an...