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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

Bulk enrollment for existing users


The option to enroll users in courses at the time of account creation is useful when creating user accounts, but once accounts have been created, other options for bulk enrollment must be utilized. For programs that span a period of time that includes multiple courses delivered one after another, a need to enroll students, who already have accounts in their Moodle site, will exist. One basic method of performing this task is through the use of the Upload users tool that we just worked with.

In the previous example, we created accounts for 500 students and enrolled those students in two courses. We'll assume that they have completed those two courses and are now going to be placed into the next two courses that make up our program. In our example, those two remaining courses will be the reading and writing courses.