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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 – testing the role


We should now test the role to confirm that it functions as desired. Once we have confirmed that the role allows users, who it has been assigned to, to post new news information and add and edit pages via the Content Pages block, we will be ready to assign it to users in our system. To test the role, follow these steps:

  1. Choose a user that is to function as the Information Secretary. For our example, we will use teacher1.

  2. First, log out as admin and log back in as teacher1 to verify that the user is not allowed to post news items or to modify or add content pages. You can log in as teacher1 by using teacher1 as the username and 1234 as the password, if you have followed all of the examples for creating our sample site to this point. The following screenshot shows the front page, as Teacher One would see it.

  3. Notice that this user has no access to the site news or to any of the pages created by the Content Pages block.

  4. Now we will add the role and assign it to...