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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 – adjusting the display style of the Content Pages admin block


It is necessary to make note here of one additional small adjustment that should be made to correct a minor block formatting issue that appeared when we removed the blocks from the right side of the page by editing a file in the Content Pages block package. Under the following conditions, you will notice that when viewing a page created by the Content Pages block, the Page Administration block is being resized to take up half of the width in your page:

  1. You are logged in as admin.

  2. The information you have entered in the page does not take up much horizontal space.

  3. You are using the Aardvark theme (note, depending on how they are styled, other themes may have the same display issue).

  4. The following screenshot demonstrates this formatting issue and, while it is only visible when logged in as admin, it is nice to fix it as, in some cases, it will better enable you to see what your page is going to look like to other users...