Book Image

Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System

Book Image

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 – testing the course capacity setting of the Registration Enrollment plugin


Let's now test the course capacity setting to make sure that the Registration Enrollment plugin will prevent users from enrolling in a course once its capacity has been met. Follow these steps to test this feature:

  1. As we currently only have five students in our system who are eligible to enroll in the course and the course maximum is set to five, we will have to change a setting to create the scenario. There are several ways this can be achieved. The easiest is to navigate to the SP-List course and change the course capacity setting via the Course Registration block.

  2. We earlier overrode the site-wide setting of 30 and set the capacity of this course to 5. We currently have three students enrolled in this course, so change this number to 3, as shown in the following screenshot, and click on the Save button at the bottom of the page:

  3. Now, log out of the site and back in as Student4010, one of the students...