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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 – preparing the target course


We are going to be using the Import tool from within the target course the same way we did when we imported the attendance activity template. As we must import the attendance module from the template course together with the newly formatted Gradebook, in order to have the Gradebook categories imported correctly, we will need to first delete the Attendance activity we have created. Deletion of the Attendance activity should be done as follows to ensure that all of its components are removed from the course. Simply deleting the Attendance activity from the top of the course is not sufficient. Doing so will not delete the Attendance Sessions and Settings Variables, which will mean that they will be included in the Attendance activity that we are planning to import later. This will create a situation in which we have multiple instances of the same sessions and settings. To make sure this does not happen, follow these steps:

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