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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

Summary


In this chapter, we introduced and set up four different roles that allow for various types of access and permissions to your Moodle site and the courses within. The first role was one that could be used to effectively silence a user or student who has demonstrated inappropriate behavior in the forums or other areas of the site. The second role was one that can be assigned to a secretary or possibly a marketing staff member such that they can update information on the site housed in either the pages created by the Content Pages block or via the news forum on the front page of the site. The third role was one that could be used to allow supervisors or directors to have access to all, or a group of, courses on the site. This role could provide for an online observation system that resembles a more traditional classroom observation system. The final role introduced was that of the parental monitor or mentor. This role allows a parent or mentor to log in to the site and access information...