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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 menu bar


To change the titles of the menu items shown in the menu bar, follow these steps:

  1. With your text editor, open the file found at the following path: yourmoodledirectory/theme/aardvark_pro/aardvark_menu.php.

  2. On or around line 43, change the text Menu One to Listening, as shown in the following code:

    <li><div><a href="<?php echo $CFG->wwwroot.'/' ?>">Listening</a>
  3. Save the file and refresh your browser window. You will see Listening take the place of the Menu One title, just as it appears in the following screenshot:

    Tip

    Using foreign language fonts in the menu bar

    If you want to use foreign language menus that contain letters or characters outside of the Latin alphabet, you will need to save the aardvark_pro.php file using the UTF-8 character encoding method. Additionally, you'll want to choose the option No BOM when you save the file. You may need to experiment with the BOM (Bit Order Mark) setting to obtain the result...