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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

Setting up a program-wide testing procedure


Another standard utilized by many educational programs is the test. Many programs administer a standardized test to students and include performance on the test in the student's overall grade for a class or classes within a program. As we set up Moodle to function as a CIMS, we can implement a testing procedure that greatly increases the efficiency of the test administration as well as the grading process.

For our example, all students in Listening classes are required to take a program-wide final exam. This final exam is the one that comprises 40 percent of the student's grade as set up in our Gradebook template, introduced earlier in this chapter. The following two examples will cover the two main methods of implementing a program-wide testing procedure of this nature. These are the administration of an exam outside of the Moodle system and the administration of an exam via the Moodle Quiz module.