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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 – limiting database table access


In order to clean up the appearance and to heighten security, we will remove the table navigation display from the left side of the screen and change settings that control access to the tables in the Moodle database. Follow these steps:

  1. Once again, open the conf.ini file found in the CIMS directory located inside your Moodle directory. The [_tables] list, that you will see inside this file, is what controls the tables being displayed in the navigation column. This [_tables] heading only controls the display however, and even if a table is removed from this list, the table can still be accessed by typing the table name into the browser window. We will use the following two directives to either display a table or prevent access to it: [_tables] and [_disallowed_tables].

  2. The [_tables] directive formatting requires the table be identified first and then given a title as in mdl_user = "Users". Add the tables that you wish to allow to this section...