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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 – customizing the Content Pages block


Although it is not necessary, for the purpose of esthetics, and to again demonstrate how easy it is to customize your site, we are now going to remove the last updated line, center the title, and remove the blocks displayed on the right side of the page. Follow these steps to make these additional changes:

  1. With your text editor, open the file found at the following path: yourmoodledirectory/blocks/page/view.php and comment out the line found on or around line 116. The line is:

    print_heading("<i>Last Updated: ".userdate($page->timemodified, get_string('strftimedate'))."</i>", 'left', 4);
  2. It can be "commented out" by placing two forward slashes at the beginning of the line. After you have added the slashes, save the file and refresh your browser window. You will see that the Last Updated message has disappeared.

  3. Next, in the same file, on the line just above the line we just commented out, which should be on or around line 115...