The Xataface database 'backside' application

For many tasks related to maintaining student information, working through the Moodle interface is sufficient. If you wish to maintain data that is not used directly by Moodle however, and you also want to provide varying levels of access to that data to selected personnel in your educational program, you may wish to use the Xataface application that we set up in the previous chapter. Use of this application can enable you to set up a student information system that is both tightly integrated with Moodle and at the same time a system that operates in parallel with but independent of Moodle. Because Xataface is in simple terms a browser-based user interface for a database, its possibilities in conjunction with Moodle are virtually limitless. We will explore a few of those possibilities and continue to customize the application we have already set up in the remainder of this chapter. We'll introduce and explain the following:

• Customizing the Xataface...