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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

Acknowledgement

No book is the product of just the author—he just happens to be the one with his name on the cover.

Many people contributed to the success of this book, and it would take more space than I have to thank each one individually.

A very special thanks goes to Sarah Cullington, my editor, who is the reason that this book exists. Thank you, Sarah, for understanding the idea and helping me to develop it into something worthy of print, and for being a wonderful guide through this process. Thank you also to the entire Packt Publishing team for working so diligently to help bring out a high quality product.

I would also like to thank those people who helped me, with support, ideas, and feedback, as I experimented with Moodle as an educational program administration tool. They include Richard McMahon, Jason Myrick, George Harrison, and Yusuke Itamiya. A special thanks also goes out to Hiroko Nagasawa, without your help I would never have been able to get the grant funding that made the registration enrollment plugin, which was the final motivation to write this book, possible.

The many users of Moodle who participate in the forums on the Moodle.org site also deserve a very heartfelt thanks. You helped me discover the possibilities Moodle has to offer and rescued me when I got lost as I experimented and explored.

Finally, I must thank Martin Dougiamas for the amazing contribution he has made to education through his brainchild, Moodle!