Book Image

Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

Book Image

Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Many people will recognize Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment that can be used in schools to teach lessons and organize student information. Fewer people will realize that Moodle can be used in businesses to dispense training, share important documents, and encourage teamwork. Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide will show you how to set up Moodle in your corporation. By introducing a system within your company that will allow for a centralized, accessible repository of knowledge, staff training will become a lot more streamlined, and the retention of skills will improve, leading to huge productivity benefits. An easy-to-access, user-friendly system is crucial to keep communication flowing in any successful business. By putting your H.R. documents, newsletters, discussions, and training documents all in one place, which is accessible from the office or from home, you are giving your employees all the information that they need to be productive and become integrated members of your company. This book will show you how to get your important business documents online, as well as the recruitment and training processes. You will learn how to move any existing processes to Moodle, as well as set up new ones that will have you wondering what you did before Moodle came along!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – creating a Question Bank


Many times we will want multiple competency exams, to reuse questions in multiple exams, or we may need to create different question banks for each competency test. The best way to do this is to create a category for each question bank and add your questions to the corresponding question bank.

  1. From the course home page, with editing turned on, go to the Course administration menu and select Question bank.

  2. From the drop-down menu select Categories from the Question Bank drop-down menu. You will be brought to the Edit categories page. Here you can edit existing categories or add new categories.

  3. To add a new category, go to the Add category section towards the bottom of the page.

  4. In the Parent category, select the parent category for the category you are creating. For this example we will select Top beneath the course we are working in. Then enter the name of the category and any category information.

  5. Once you are finished, click on Add category at the...