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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 – creating a new account and assigning the role to it


Now that we have created the role, we are going to assign it to a parent user through the parent's child's profile page. First, however, let's quickly create a new user account for the parent so we have a user account that is not already assigned as a teacher or student in other courses. Follow these steps:

  1. From the front page of your course, click on the Users link found in the Site Administration block. Then click on the Accounts link and finally the Add a new user link. Fill in information for the fields labeled with red text and an asterisk, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Update profile button to create the new user. We are going to assign the Parental Role to student 5 and thus opted to name the parent Parent5. An example of our parent account is shown in the following screenshot.

  2. Once the new parent account has been created, navigate to the front page of your site and click on the Users link found...