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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 – setting up a user profile field for assessment test scores


We will start by setting up three user profile fields, two will be used to house achievement scores from an assessment test given in our program twice a year, and the other will be used to record which of three programs a student is enrolled in. After setting up the fields, we will populate them with data and then demonstrate several methods of accessing aggregated data. To set up the profile fields, follow these steps:

  1. Log in to your Moodle site as admin and click on the User profile fields link found by clicking on Users and then Accounts from within the Site Administration block, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. When you visit the User profile fields link, you will see a screen like the following screenshot. Use the drop-down menu to select Text input, as shown in the screenshot.

  3. You will now see a window titled Creating a new "Text input" profile field. Enter a Short name and, although it is not stated in...