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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Paperback Jan 2011 308 pages 1st Edition

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Key benefits

Transform your Moodle site into a system that will allow you to manage information such as monitoring attendance records, managing the number of students enrolled for a particular course, and inter-department communication
Create courses for all subjects in no time with the Bulk Course Creation tool
Create accounts for hundreds of users swiftly and enroll them in courses at the same time using a CSV file.
Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series: Readers are walked through each task as they read through the book with the end result being a sample CIMS Moodle site

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you are a teacher or head of department in an institution and are interested in how Moodle can be used to streamline curriculum delivery and information flow in your institution, this book is for you. This book is also useful for Moodle administrators. Prior experience with Moodle is not essential for this book.

What you will learn

Create hundreds of courses in Moodle via the Bulk Course Creation tool with ease
Add multiple web pages to your Moodle site that can all be accessed by anyone visiting the front page of your site
Use Moodle to keep attendance records for your institution
Ideas about how Moodle can be used as a grade submission tool
Deliver program-wide assessment tests using the Moodle Quiz module
Create different roles, with specifically defined access capabilities, in your Moodle site for educational administrators
Install and use several advanced plugins that allow you to access student related information and data that is stored in the Moodle database
Different ways of using your Moodle database as a Student Information System
Expedite the communication and information flow within your institution using Moodle modules
Manage the course registration and enrollment for your institution using contributed Moodle enrollment plugins

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Brian Mattson Feb 02, 2011

As an educator, I feel that this book is a great source for anyone who plans on working with Moodle. Mr. Hollowell has written the book in a logical, easy to follow sequence, that allows for both cover to cover reading and/or referencing for subject specific questions. Institutions new to Moodle, particularly their tech departments, should consider this a must as it provides step by step instructions for getting started and provides ideas as to how Moodle can best be used to meet your needs. For those who are already using Moodle, this book will provide a variety of ideas on how Moodle can be used to streamline a wide range of tasks. As noted in the subtitle, this book will help readers to "use Moodle to manage and organize your administrative duties, monitor attendance records, manage student enrollment, record exam results, and much more". Whether you are completely new to Moodle or an experienced user, an administrator, teacher, or IT coordinator, this book will prove invaluable.

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W. Baars Jun 03, 2011

If your school is considering Moodle (versus another LMS) you MUST read this book first. However, the greatest use of this book is for moodle admins as it covers a lot of their work and issues with Moodle. There is a lot out there for teachers and users who want to work with moodle, but not so much for (technical) administrators.

Benjamin J. Reynolds Mar 13, 2011

The two books I wish I had had when I started Moodling are this one and Mary Cooch's "Moodle for Teaching 7-14 Year Olds - Beginner's Guide" [...] Both are in the "Beginner's Guide" series by Packt Publishing, and both would have reduced considerably the learning curve to building a Moodle site and building Moodle classrooms. In fact, Mary Cooch has written a longer review of Jason Hollowell's book, which is located here: [...] In her usual, methodical approach, Mary goes chapter by chapter through "Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System." I'm just going to "gee whiz" about some specific parts.I wish I'd known that I could install a test Moodle site on my computer. It's a fairly simple process, and Hollowell takes readers through it with great clarity and simple prose. If you're new to Moodle, this is the very first thing you should do: read his Chapter 1, and start playing to see what Moodle can do. He's also very clear about how to build a course, create categories for courses, and -- holy grail for large programs like mine -- use the Bulk Course Upload tool to create courses in, well, bulk. My institution had considerable floundering -- which I see among Moodle newbies on the discussion boards at Moodle.org -- about how to bulk enroll users, but had we had Jason's book, we would have saved ourselves several months of explorations.The real meat of Hollowell's book, however, is in the last 5 of its 10 chapters. Here, we begin to see the true power of open source and of the "modular" part of the Moodle acronym. We learn how to make Moodle function as an information portal, how to add supervisory and parental roles using the Mentees block, how to add and use the Enhanced User Administration and Custom SQL blocks. These are "pieces" you can add to Moodle but that do not come built in. The addition is not complicated, and, as always, the installation and use is explained in simple terms for beginners. The true power of open source software is access to the database. Unlike a proprietary system in which users are walled off from the data and only allowed to make preset queries, open source allows users to pull any data they want. Even if you don't know how to write SQL queries (I don't), you can pay someone else to write the query, then plop it into the Custom SQL block, and teachers can run the query with a simple click any time they want.One of the two concepts in Moodle hardest to wrap your head around is the meta course. Hollowell takes beginners through the creation of a meta course and demonstrates how it works with considerably less confusion than the Moodle documentation. He shows how metacourses can be used for efficient communication, especially in the context of an advisory or counseling system.Finally, the last chapter shows off another virtue of open source software. With a grant from Nihon University, Hollowell designed the Registration Enrollment plugin and had the programming done by a Moodle Partner, Moodlerooms. The plugin was then contributed back to the Moodle community for use by anyone. This is a pretty sophisticated plugin while at the same time being simple to operate.All told, this is a great beginner's guide book. Even if you use only half the chapters, you'll be well off for reading it.

Jade Oct 25, 2012

I found the book very easy to follow but it suffers from the perennial problem of any publication of this type. Moodle itself has moved on (Now version 2.9) and, while I could have installed an earlier version of Moodle (1.9), I am reluctant to do this. The author could have made sure that the "addins" he recommended were still available for download (A few have been discontinued and the others extended) - maybe they could have been made available on the publisher's website. .

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