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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 – creating a template course


We are going to set up a course to use as a 'template' course in which we will create the Attendance activity that we are going to use to import attendance settings into our courses. Follow these steps to get your template course ready:

  1. Log in to your site as admin or as a user with administrative privileges and navigate to the Course categories page. One way to do this is to click on the Show all courses link found at the bottom of your MyCourses block, as shown in the following screenshot. The direct URL to this page will always be http://www.yoursite.com/course/.

  2. From the Course categories page, click on the Turn editing on button.

  3. With editing turned on, click on the Miscellaneous link to enter the miscellaneous category and then click on the Add a new course button.

  4. Create the new course with a Full name and Short name that will enable you to identify it easily. This course will hold attendance settings that are going to be used as a template...