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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

About the Reviewers

Anthony Borrow, S.J is a Jesuit of the New Orleans Province who has been active in the Moodle community for the past five years. Anthony has an M.A. degree in Counseling from Saint Louis University and a Masters of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Anthony has worked on the design and implementation of various database systems since 1992.

Anthony serves the Moodle community as its CONTRIB Coordinator. In that role, Anthony has presented at various MoodleMoots (conferences) across the United States and provided in-house training opportunities for institutions learning how to implement Moodle. Anthony has taught at Dallas Jesuit College Preparatory and provides technical advise to the Jesuit Secondary Education Association (http://jsea.org) and the Jesuit Virtual Learning Academy (http://jvla.org/). Anthony is currently serving the community at Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory of Houston (http://cristoreyjesuit.org) as their Campus Minister.

He is the co-author of the Honduras chapter of Teen Gangs: A Global View. He has also been the technical reviewer of various Packt books (0141, 1001, 1902, 4244).

Brian Mattson is a history teacher from Lapeer, Michigan with a passion for Moodle and its use in both blended and remote learning environments. After teaching at an American school in Torreon, Mexico for four years he moved to Bulgaria where he and his colleagues pioneered the use of Moodle at the Anglo American School of Sofia. Currently he resides in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where he runs a Moodle consulting business that provides training and workshops for international schools throughout Europe and beyond. He can be contacted at .

Kent Villard is a twenty-year veteran of the IT industry and currently is the E-Learning Coordinator for the University of Prince Edward Island. He has been administering Moodle for almost five years. Kent particularly enjoys the process of converting traditional curriculum to work in an online form. He has acted as a technical reviewer for Packt on Moodle 1.9 for Design and Technology and Moodle 1.9 Teaching Techniques.

When not administering Moodle or evangelizing the Mac platform, Kent can be found spending quality time with his beautiful wife Denise and awesome kids, Maxwell and Samantha.

Kent lives in Cornwall, Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada. He can be reached at .