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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 – populating the fields


The data that will be stored in these fields will, in the case of most programs, exist in spreadsheets or other storage systems external to Moodle, so we will need to migrate the scores and program enrollment information into Moodle. This can be easily accomplished by using the Upload users function we visited earlier in Chapter 3, Student Account Creation and Enrollment. Follow these steps to prepare a CSV file and use it to populate the user profile fields:

  1. Obtain a list of the users in your Moodle site in a spreadsheet format. While this can be accomplished in many different ways, the easiest for this example will be to use the CSV file we used in Chapter 3, Student Account Creation and Enrollment, to create new student accounts. The file is available from the Packt website at www.packtpub.com/support. In a production site environment, you could use the Bulk user actions function in Moodle found from the front page of your site in the Site Administration...