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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 – an exam administered outside of Moodle


The first step in setting up a system within Moodle for organizing an exam that is administered outside of Moodle is to create a new course.

  1. Click on the Show all courses link found at the bottom of the MyCourses block and then scroll down to the bottom of the subsequent page and click on Add a new course.

  2. We will put this example course in the Miscellaneous category but you can, of course, place the course wherever you like. Use a course name that clearly defines the course and enter a brief explanation in the Summary box. Select Yes for the Is this a meta course? question and enter an Enrolment key to keep users who are not supposed to have access to the course from accessing the course. We are using a meta course here because doing so will allow us to easily enroll students in the course by specifying the child courses that are to be linked to the meta course. For more information about meta courses, please visit the relevant Moodle...