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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 – checking the role functionality


Now that we have created a parental role, assigned it from within a user that is to serve as the child, and inserted an instance of the Mentees block on the front page, let's check to see what the parental role allows the parent to do and see. Follow these steps to check the role:

  1. Log out of the site and log back in as the parent. Log in using the parental account we made earlier with username parent5 and the password you set, 1234 in our case.

  2. From the front page of the site, you will see the My Child block that contains a link to the child's profile page we assigned the Parental Monitor role to, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Click on the Student1005 link to access the student's profile page. The parent can now toggle through the tabs at the top of the profile to edit the student's profile, view forum posts and blog, and view activity reports. The following screenshot shows the first view the parent is presented with after clicking...