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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 – creating and populating the user profile fields


We are going to set up our registration enrollment system to use two user profile fields, the Program of Study field we created in Chapter 8, Setting Up a Mini SIS and a new field to house information about students' proficiency levels. The registration enrollment system uses user profile fields, and their values, to establish criteria that control whether a user is allowed to enroll in a course or not, so we thus need to create and populate the new user profile field before we may proceed with the Registration Enrollment plugin setup. Follow these steps to create and populate the new field:

  1. Log in to your Moodle site as admin and, from the Site Administration block, click on Users, then Accounts, and then User profile fields.

  2. Use the pull down menu to create a new text input user profile field.

  3. We are going to create a user profile field titled "level" and use the field to store proficiency level information such as Advanced...