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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 number of courses displayed in a user's profile


The last setting that we will modify for now is the number of courses that are displayed in a user's profile. When you click on a user's name in Moodle, your browser is redirected to the profile page for that user where various details, including the courses the user is enrolled in, are displayed. As a default setting, Moodle will only display 20 courses for a user. If the number of courses a user is enrolled in has exceeded 20, the course list for that user will end with three dots, as shown in the following screenshot. Note, this screenshot shows only one course followed by the three dots. This is a result of the setting we are about to change being set to 1 for the purpose of demonstration.

Change the setting from the default of 20 to a higher number by following these steps:

  1. Open the following file with your text editor: yourmoodledirectory/user/view.php.

  2. Look for the following line of code found on or around...