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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 – customizing the logo


One last thing that we should customize before finishing up this chapter is the logo that appears at the top of the front page. In Chapter 1, Welcome to Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System (CIMS)!, we added a graphic to the topic section that appears at the top of the front page, but we may want to use that area for other purposes and as there is already space at the top of the page allocated for a logo, it only makes sense to add our school or program logo there. To change the Aardvark logo, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the following location: yourmoodledirectory/theme/aardvark_pro/images/header.

  2. In the header directory, you will see an image file entitled logo.png.

  3. Replace this file with the image that you want to appear at the top of your page. Make sure that you use the same, or similar, dimensions as the default image to ensure that your image is formatted correctly in the header area of the theme. Opening and editing the logo...