Chapter 5. Enabling your Moodle Site to Function as an Information Portal

Our Moodle site is truly starting to take shape as a CIMS now that we have created course categories, created and enrolled teachers in courses in each of our categories, created student accounts and enrolled students in courses, and finally, set up our site such that it will support and conform to standards adhered to by our institution. It is time now to take a step back from the educational administrator's or teacher's perspective and look at our site from the perspective of the students who will be interacting with it.

Most educational programs present students or, in the case of very young students, their parents or guardians with detailed information about the programs offered. Likewise, most educational programs that are made up of a series of courses almost always deliver those courses and their curriculum, in a somewhat regulated fashion. For example, a student is not allowed to take an advanced math class...