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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

Introducing the Registration Enrollment plugin


The Registration Enrollment plugin that will be introduced in this chapter was developed through a Nihon University Individual Research Grant for 2009 that was awarded to the author of this book and the plugin was donated to the public under the same GNU Public License used by Moodle. Developmental work, in the form of programming and design collaboration, was performed by the Moodle Partner, MoodleRooms.

This plugin uses values stored in the custom user profile fields that were discussed in Chapter 8, Setting Up a Mini SIS and it will allow you to control all of the following when students register for courses within your Moodle CIMS:

  • Set a maximum number of students that may enroll in a course

  • Set up multiple priority enrollment periods in order to allow specific groups of students to register for courses before they are open to all students

  • Control enrollment in a course based upon a value stored in a user profile field

  • Specify the number of courses...