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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 – setting up the Registration Enrollment plugin (default site-wide settings)


Now that we have installed the files that make up the Registration Enrollment plugin and have created a new user profile field to be used by the system, we need to enable the plugin and then set it up to control the enrollment for some of our courses. Follow these steps to get the system up and running:

  1. Click on the Courses and then Enrolment links found in the Site Administration block on the front page of your Moodle site.

  2. This will present the Enrolments window that will look like the following screenshot. Tick the Enable box found to the right of the Registration Enrolment line, as shown in the following screenshot, and then click on the Save changes button:

  3. Next, click on the Edit link to access the plugin settings.

  4. The Registration Enrolment window that will appear, shown in the following screenshot, presents a Save changes button but clicking on this button will merely return you to the Enrolments...