Summary

In this chapter, we have explored several methods of expanding our Moodle CIMS into a tool that facilitates efficient communication between the various users of the system. We started with the creation of a meta course that was assigned all of the courses in our reading program as child courses. Within this course we set up three groups: teachers, students, and educational administrators. We then created a special course to house our educational administrators and also assigned that course as a child course to our meta course and then created various forums for our groups. One forum was set up for all members to participate in, one for only teachers, and a third for only teachers and administrators. This was one example of how Forums, combined with the use of groups, can be set up to facilitate communication and collaboration.

Next we built an advising system, using some of the concepts we learned in setting up our communication forums, by creating groups and groupings within our...