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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 – setting up the forums inside the meta course


We are going to use this meta course as a communication and collaboration area for all users, students, teachers, and administrators, involved with the reading program, so now we need to set up some forums. We'll set up the following forums:

  • A forum for all users in the course

  • A forum for teachers

  • A forum for teachers and administrators

To set up each of these forums follow these simple steps:

  1. Log in to your site as admin and navigate to the Reading Program meta course.

  2. Turn editing on by clicking on the Turn editing on button.

  3. In the section numbered 1, just below the top section containing the News forum, use the Add an activity pull down menu to select and set up a Forum.

  4. Title the forum Reading Program, use the Standard forum type, enter a short description, and use the following settings:

    • Force everyone to be subscribed: Yes, forever

    • Read tracking: On

    • Maximum attachment size: Increase to accommodate for files that may be uploaded...