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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 submenus


Now that we have customized the menu titles, we need to continue by customizing the titles that appear in each box that shows up when we move our mouse over the title. We also need to make sure that each link, the menu title as well as the items that appear in the boxes, points to a page with relevant information. For our example, we will work with the Program menu item and its submenu. In its current state, it looks like the following screenshot:

To change the title that appears at the top of the window, as well as the text for the eight items, follow these steps:

  1. With your text editor, open the yourmoodledirectory/theme/aardvark_pro/aardvark_menu.php file to change the menu bar titles.

  2. The text we need to edit can be found between lines 46 and 57. I will change the titles for our example as follows (note that, the line numbers listed are approximate and may vary depending on the version of the file):

    • Line 46: Subtitle Text: Program Overview

    • Line 50...