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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 – locking courses for grade retrieval


The Gradebook cannot actually be locked in a clean, quick, and easy fashion, so we will instead remove the teacher's ability to access the course in order to give us time to extract the grades from the Gradebook, so that they can be transferred to whatever student records management system is in use on our campus. For our example, all Listening courses are offered in the same term and thus have the same ending date. To prevent access to these courses do the following:

  1. On the day that falls two weeks beyond the last day of class, we will log in to our site as admin and access the main course page found at http://oursite.com/course/. From the course page, click on the Turn editing on button and then select the category containing the courses we want to prevent access to. In our example, this is the Listening category. Click on the small eye icon next to the Listening category to hide this category and all of its contents. The resulting screen...