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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

Chapter 6. Customized Roles

Educational programs usually track students' progress on a macro level via the use of evaluative tools such as tests, individual course grades, and more frequently, cumulative grade averages through the use of Grade Point Averaging systems. In addition to being able to record, and thus track this type of information in your Moodle site, it is also possible to monitor student access and activity at a micro level. We can, for example, determine how often a student logs into the site, what time of day he or she most frequently logs into the site, and what he or she does while logged in.

We will explore various methods for monitoring and reporting on student access and performance in the Moodle site.

While there are numerous methods for accessing the wealth of information that is stored within the Moodle database, in this chapter, we will focus on methods that are easy to set up and use but that do however, provide detailed information. In this chapter, we will...