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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 – installing the Mentees block


In order for a logged-in parent to be able to easily access his or her child's information, you will need to install an instance of the Mentees block on the front page of your site. Follow these simple steps to set up the block on your site:

  1. From the front page of your site, logged in as admin, click on the Turn editing on button located in the top-right of your browser window.

  2. From the Blocks pull-down menu, select the Mentees block, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Click on the pencil icon, shown in the following screenshot, on the newly installed Mentees block to change the title:

  4. Change the name to something like My Child, as shown in the following screenshot, and click on the Save changes button to save the new title:

What just happened?

We have just inserted an instance of the Mentees block on the front page of our site. When a parent logs into the site, this block will provide them with easy access to their child's profile, where they...