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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 – customizing the Xataface table display


Xataface is designed to be extremely customizable from its appearance to how it functions. A thorough exploration of Xataface is beyond the scope of this book but we will go through a few of the basics in order that you may get it set up and working efficiently with in your Moodle instance. We'll start by building on the minor display customization we did in the previous chapter. Our current Xataface application is set to display only the user's table in Moodle but we don't need to see all of the fields in that table, so let's hide all but the fields we want to have access to. Follow these simple steps to clean up the table display:

  1. Log in to your Xataface application at www.yourmoodlesite/cims and click on the Users tab to view the user's table.

  2. Leave your browser for now and navigate to your Xataface directory, which should be located in your Moodle root directory and titled cims, if you have followed all of the tutorials thus far...