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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

Summary


In the first half of this chapter, we learned how to create user accounts and enroll those users in courses at the same time as their accounts were being created. We then reviewed the easiest and most straightforward method of enrolling existing students in courses on the Moodle site via the Update existing users only option in the Upload users tool. In the second half of the chapter, the enrollment options in Moodle, which exist in the form of plugins, were introduced. These options were evaluated from the perspective of setting up Moodle to function as a CIMS. Using the Upload users tool within the Internal enrolment option was presented as being the easiest method and we learned that the external database plugin is one that holds the most possibility for expanding the efficiency and sophistication of the enrollment process in our CIMS. In the following chapter, we will explore methods of incorporating standards into the use of our Moodle CIMS.