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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 – testing the Registration Enrollment plugin for a non-eligible student


Follow these steps to see how the Registration Enrollment plugin will handle a student who does not meet any of the criteria for enrolling in the course. Note, this example is also applicable to students who meet the priority enrollment period criteria but do not meet the primary requirement, which is defined from within the plugin using the Userfield Value setting. Users who may, incidentally, meet the priority enrollment period requirements, are not allowed to enroll in a course if the primary requirement has not been fulfilled.

  1. Use the following account to log in to the course: Student3001 – Username = S300001 and Password = S3001.

  2. Again, navigate to the SP-List course and click on the course link to attempt to enroll in the course.

  3. This time you will see an error message informing the student that he or she is not eligible to enroll in the course, as shown in the following screenshot. Note, you can change...