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Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System

You're reading from   Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System Use Moodle to manage and organize your administrative duties; monitor attendance records, manage student enrolment, record exam results, and much more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513227
Length 308 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Welcome to Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System (CIMS)! 2. Building the Foundation—Creating Categories and Courses FREE CHAPTER 3. Student Account Creation and Enrollment 4. Incorporating Educational Standards 5. Enabling your Moodle Site to Function as an Information Portal 6. Customized Roles 7. Advanced Data Access and Display 8. Setting Up a Mini SIS 9. Promoting Efficient Communication 10. Advanced Enrollment Plugin Pop Quiz Answers Index

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In this chapter, we installed four very useful tools that will help us to position our Moodle site solidly as a CIMS. The tools and the functions we have covered in this chapter are:

  • The Enhanced User Administration block: This block allows you to sort and filter user accounts and perform various actions, bulk and single user, on the accounts. It can be a very handy tool for quickly retrieving simple user-related information from your Moodle site.

  • PHPMyAdmin: We installed this very powerful database administration tool that is accessible via the Server link found in the Site Administration block of your site. We briefly demonstrated how this tool allows you to access and view all of the contents of the tables stored in the Moodle database.

  • Custom SQL Query tool: This is a tool that is installed as a report and is accessible via the Reports link found in the Site Administration block on the front page of your Moodle site. We constructed one sample query that returns final grades from...

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