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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

The Xataface database 'backside' application


For many tasks related to maintaining student information, working through the Moodle interface is sufficient. If you wish to maintain data that is not used directly by Moodle however, and you also want to provide varying levels of access to that data to selected personnel in your educational program, you may wish to use the Xataface application that we set up in the previous chapter. Use of this application can enable you to set up a student information system that is both tightly integrated with Moodle and at the same time a system that operates in parallel with but independent of Moodle. Because Xataface is in simple terms a browser-based user interface for a database, its possibilities in conjunction with Moodle are virtually limitless. We will explore a few of those possibilities and continue to customize the application we have already set up in the remainder of this chapter. We'll introduce and explain the following:

  • Customizing the Xataface...