Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System电子书

Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Welcome to Moodle as a Curriculum and Information Management System (CIMS)!

What is Moodle?

A VLE, LMS, and CMS

Using Moodle as a CIMS

Installing Moodle

Installing MAMP and XAMPP packages

Time for action – installing the Mac OS X package

What just happened?

Time for action – installing the Windows package

What just happened?

Basic setup and customization of your Moodle site

Time for action – basic customization

What just happened?

Time for action – customizing the label area of the front page

What just happened?

Time for action – adding the Main Menu block

What just happened?

Installing third party contributions

Blocks and modules

Time for action – installing the My Courses block

What just happened?

Time for action – installing the Attendance package

What just happened?

Installing other plugins (themes)

Time for action – installing the Aardvark Pro original theme

What just happened?

Summary

2. Building the Foundation—Creating Categories and Courses

Course categories

Manual creation of course categories

Time for action – manually creating course categories

What just happened?

Teacher account creation

Time for action – creating teacher accounts

What just happened?

Using the Bulk Course Upload tool

Time for action – installing the Bulk Course Upload tool

What just happened?

Summary

3. Student Account Creation and Enrollment

Bulk account creation and course enrollment

Time for action – enrolling students when creating their accounts

What just happened?

Time for action – checking the enrollment status from the course context

What just happened?

Time for action – checking enrollment status from the user's profile page

What just happened?

Bulk enrollment for existing users

Time for action – preparing the CSV file

What just happened?

Time for action – enroll existing users

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Pop quiz

Other enrollment options

Enrollment plugins

CIMS enrollment review

Summary

4. Incorporating Educational Standards

Implementing standard policies and procedures in your Moodle site

Attendance standards

Bulk setup of the attendance module

Time for action – creating a template course

What just happened?

Time for action – setting up the attendance template

What just happened?

Time for action – importing the attendance template to other courses

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Grading standards

Time for action – creating a standard grading scale

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a Gradebook template

What just happened?

Time for action – preparing the target course

What just happened?

Time for action – importing the Gradebook template

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Implementing a final grade submission process

The policy

The process

Time for action – locking courses for grade retrieval

What just happened?

Setting up a program-wide testing procedure

Time for action – an exam administered outside of Moodle

What just happened?

An exam administered via the Moodle quiz module

Summary

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

Modifying display settings

Time for action – removing course lists from the category page

What just happened?

Time for action – increasing the detailed summary setting

What just happened?

Pop quiz

Time for action – increasing the number of courses displayed in a user's profile

What just happened?

Expanding content display possibilities

Time for action – installation of Content Pages block

What just happened?

Time for action – customizing the Content Pages block

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Customization of third party themes

Time for action – customizing the menu bar

What just happened?

Time for action – customizing the submenus

What just happened?

Time for action – adding links to the submenu items

What just happened?

Time for action – adjusting the display style of the Content Pages admin block

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Time for action – customizing the logo

What just happened?

Summary

6. Customized Roles

Permissions and roles

Creating a censored student role

Time for action – creating and using a censored student role

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Assistant administrator role

Time for action – creating and using an assistant administrator role

What just happened?

Time for action – testing the role

What just happened?

Administrative monitor role

Time for action – creating and using an administrative monitor role

What just happened?

Time for action – assigning and testing the role

What just happened?

Have a go hero

The Mentor, Advisor, and Parental Monitor role

Time for action – creating and using the Parental Monitor role

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a new account and assigning the role to it

What just happened?

Time for action – installing the Mentees block

What just happened?

Time for action – checking the role functionality

What just happened?

Pop quiz

Have a go hero

Summary

7. Advanced Data Access and Display

The Enhanced User Administration block

Time for action – installation and use of the Enhanced User Admin block

What just happened?

Pop quiz

Have a go hero

Installation and use of PHPMyAdmin

Time for action – installing and using PHPMyAdmin

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Installation and basic use of the Custom SQL query tool

Time for action – install and experiment with the Custom SQL query tool

What just happened?

SQL queries

Time for action – creating a sample query

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Installation and basic setup of the embedded Xataface database application

Time for action – installation and basic setup of Xataface

What just happened?

Time for action – setup of our Xataface application

What just happened?

Time for action – limiting database table access

What just happened?

Time for action – another Xataface security measure

What just happened?

Pop quiz

Summary

8. Setting Up a Mini SIS

Custom user profile fields

Time for action – setting up a user profile field for assessment test scores

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Time for action – a profile field for program enrollment information

What just happened?

Time for action – populating the fields

What just happened?

Pop quiz

Have a go hero

Using the user profile fields as the search criteria

Time for action – searching using the Bulk user actions tool

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Time for action – searching using PHPMyAdmin

What just happened?

The Xataface database 'backside' application

Time for action – customizing the Xataface table display

What just happened?

Time for action – setting up relationships in Xataface

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Time for action – using Xataface to modify core Moodle data

What just happened?

Pop quiz

Time for action – Xataface as an enrollment table maintenance tool

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Summary

9. Promoting Efficient Communication

Using Moodle as a hub for internal information distribution, collaboration, and communication

Facilitating intra- or inter-departmental or program communication, collaboration, and information flow

Time for action – setting up the meta course

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a group inside the meta course

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Time for action – setting up the forums inside the meta course

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Building a mentor, homeroom, advisor, or counselor system

Time for action – setting up a mentor, advisor, or counseling system

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Feedback systems—using the questionnaire module

Time for action – installing and using the questionnaire module

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Summary

10. Advanced Enrollment Plugin

Introducing the Registration Enrollment plugin

Time for action – installing the Registration Enrollment plugin

What just happened?

Time for action – creating and populating the user profile fields

What just happened?

Time for action – setting up the Registration Enrollment plugin (default site-wide settings)

What just happened?

Time for action – registration enrollment system settings (course level)

What just happened?

Testing the Registration Enrollment plugin

Time for action – testing the priority enrollment period setting for an eligible student

What just happened?

Time for action – testing the priority enrollment period for an ineligible student

What just happened?

Time for action – testing the Registration Enrollment plugin for a non-eligible student

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Time for action – testing the course capacity setting of the Registration Enrollment plugin

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Time for action – testing the Registration Enrollment plugin base criteria

What just happened?

Time for action – testing the Registration Enrollment plugin after the period has ended

What just happened?

Time for action – testing the Registration Enrollment plugin Allowed Enrollments setting

What just happened?

Pop Quiz

Testing the Registration Enrollment Plugin—a review

Have a go hero

A note on Moodle customization

Summary

A. Pop Quiz Answers

Chapter 3

Student Account Creation and Enrollment

Chapter 5

Enabling your Moodle Site to Function as an Information Portal

Chapter 6

Customized Roles

Chapter 7

Advanced Data Access and Display

Chapter 8

Setting Up a Mini SIS

Chapter 10

Advanced Enrollment Plugin

Index