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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

An exam administered via the Moodle quiz module


For a final examination that is actually delivered through the Moodle system, the previous setup can also be used. The only difference will be that the exam will need to be created in or imported to the meta course that will serve as the administration site for the test. As all of the students from child courses are automatically enrolled in the meta course, they will be able to access the quiz module, that will contain the final examination, and take the test. The only difference in working with the test results data via this process is that the scores will already be stored in the Moodle Gradebook. In this case, the advanced option of automatically having scores copied over to the appropriate location in the child courses, that was mentioned in the previous paragraph, is likely one of the best choices for working with the grades.