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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

Implementing standard policies and procedures in your Moodle site


Almost every educational program, to varying degrees, has in place standards upon which it operates in order to ensure that every student is treated fairly and equitably. These standards may be in the form of rules that govern student evaluation methods, procedures for filing paperwork required of instructors, or policies that must be adhered to by students in a program such as attendance requirements. One aspect of expanding Moodle to function as a CIMS is through the implementation of many of these standards in the Moodle site. Doing so will not only introduce a heightened level of efficiency, it will also serve to make your program-wide standards more transparent and thus, more easily adopted and adhered to by everyone involved in your program. The following examples are just a few introductory ideas for how to implement standards through your Moodle site. Once you have experimented with these, I encourage you to think...