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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

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to implement some basic program standards by setting up the attendance module as a standardized module for all courses in an educational program. We also explored standardization of grading through site-wide settings for the Gradebook as well as through the creation of a Gradebook template. This template was used to create a base Gradebook for teachers to build upon, which already contains categories and items that are standardized within the educational program. Towards the end of the chapter, we worked with implementation of a grade submission policy that allows Moodle to function as an electronic grade submission tool. Further development of this process, that will allow for a more precise grade submission system, was introduced and will hopefully be available shortly after this text has been published. Lastly, we discussed and demonstrated how Moodle can be used to organize a program-wide testing process. This chapter has thus taken an additional...