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{{Activities}}The database activity module allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic. The format and structure of these entries can be almost unlimited, including images, files, URLs, numbers and text amongst other things.  
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Moodle's '''Database Activity Module''' is an activity which allows the teacher to define a structured format for information - a set of fields. Teachers and/or students can then contribute to the "database" and build up a collection of structured records.
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:(Technically, a single instance of the database activity module is more like a single ''data table'' than a whole ''relational database''.)
* [[Database activity settings|Database settings]]
* [[Building Database]]
* [[Database templates]]
* [[Using Database]]
* [[Database activity FAQ]]


For example, one activity might ask students to contribute pictures they have created. The activity would need a "picture" field but could also have a "title" field and a "description" field. The teacher could decide to allow participants to add comments to each others' contributions, or even to rate them.
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:'''''Note:''' Please don't confuse this [[Adding resources and activities | activity type]] with Moodle's underlying database, which stores all of the information used in Moodle courses.''
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Latest revision as of 14:52, 16 February 2019

The database activity module allows the teacher and/or students to build, display and search a bank of record entries about any conceivable topic. The format and structure of these entries can be almost unlimited, including images, files, URLs, numbers and text amongst other things.

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