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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 – using Xataface to modify core Moodle data


Now that we have worked a little on modifying the display settings in Xataface, we should briefly discuss and experiment with actually making changes to a Moodle table via the Xataface interface. Remember, we are going to be making changes to data that is used by Moodle, so don't practice on a live site. The experimental site we have set up is the perfect environment to get some hands on experience in order to get used to the tools and processes and to also give you some time to think about how, and if, you want to use them. We'll start by enabling the history function within Xataface and then walk through editing some fields in the Moodle mdl_user table. Follow these steps:

  1. First, to enable the history function, open the conf.ini file located in your Xataface root directory, titled cims in our case, and add the following two lines below the [_auth] heading and before the [_allowed_tables] heading:

    [history]
    enabled = 1
  2. Save the file...