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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 – checking the enrollment status from the course context


In order to verify the account creation and course enrollments, and to visualize how the courses are organized, we will now quickly walk through a quick process of checking to see that the users we just created have been enrolled in courses. Follow these steps to check a few courses and their enrollments:

  1. Navigate to a course using the My Courses navigation tree. We'll check the Advanced Listening 1 course (Short name AdvList1) first, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. From inside the course, click on the Participants link found in the People block at the top-left of the course page, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. You will see 27 participants in this course. Why, you ask? Because, we have enrolled 25 students and remember, when we created the courses in Chapter 2, Building the Foundation—Creating Categories and Courses, we demonstrated how multiple teachers can be enrolled in courses by enrolling two teachers...