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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 – increasing the detailed summary setting


Now that we have modified the course category display setting, the categories, and the number of courses they contain, are the only things that can be seen from the Course category page. Clicking on a category will display the courses contained within, as shown in the following screenshot:

The example provided here is ideal as the listing for each course can contain detailed information about the course, such as the days and times it meets, the location, information about the syllabus, the name and even possibly a picture of the instructor if it is entered through the HTML editor portion of the description setting from within the course. However, a problem arises when we have more than ten courses in a category. In a default Moodle installation, Moodle is set to abbreviate the course descriptions when there are more than ten on a page. The following screenshot shows this abbreviation style with just five courses (this was accomplished...