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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 – setup of our Xataface application


As we mentioned earlier, the default installation of Xataface is not appropriate as a backside portal for Moodle due to the fact that it grants universal and unlimited access to all of the tables in the Moodle database. There are a wealth of tutorials to help assist you customize your Xataface instance on the web in the Wiki area of the Xataface website at www.xataface.com. We will walk through a few of those that are considered to be crucial when using this package together with Moodle. We will start by setting up the authentication feature in Xataface in order to limit access to users who have been granted usernames and passwords. The types of access that can be granted to users will also be listed. To enable the authentication function, follow these steps:

  1. Before we set up authentication in the Xataface application, we need to create a table in the database to store user information. This is a perfect chance for us to use the PHPMyAdmin...