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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

Feedback systems—using the questionnaire module


In addition to the various methods for promoting, mediating, and controlling communication and collaboration systems within Moodle, there are also various tools available to the Moodle user that allow for polling or surveying to obtain opinions and other forms of feedback from users of the system. Surveying students and teachers in order to obtain information about attitudes and opinions as well as background information is a practice common to many educational institutions. The results of this type of information gathering allows institutions to adapt to their students and teachers as well as to conduct research that, for example, may help to inform them about the effectiveness of their programs. Traditionally, surveys and questionnaires have been conducted via paper-based systems but with the advent of computers and the Internet, electronic polling has become a commonplace practice that allows for extremely efficient data gathering. One Moodle...