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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 7. Advanced Data Access and Display

Information about how users are interacting with an educational program can provide insight into how well the program is serving the needs of its students. Monitoring things such as, but not limited to, student interaction, attendance, and assessed performance will help educators and educational administrators to make decisions about the curriculum and its execution. The ability, for example, to determine how many times a student interacts with the Moodle site, may provide insight into the student's level of motivation and interest. Additionally, the ability to monitor a student's performance as determined by assessment systems, automated or teacher-generated, may enable educational administrators to better assist students in need of guidance and to adjust the curriculum to meet the needs of those who would benefit from more academic challenges.

In this chapter, we will explore the installation and use of several tools that allow for more advanced...