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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

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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 – adding labels to each topic


Let's start with the first topic.

  1. Make sure editing is on. If not, click on Turn editing on.

  2. As in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Moodle, to add a resource label, click on the Add a resource drop down and select Label.

  3. In the introduction text include the lesson objectives for the lesson when it's a lesson topic. These objectives would be the same as the ones you wrote in the Scheme of Work.

  4. When you are finished, click on Save and return to course.

  5. Now repeat steps 2 through 4 for each topic.

  6. In topic 1 you will want to move the forum below the label. Do this using the move resource icon as before.

What just happened?

Now look at the course. It is starting to take shape. Anyone looking at this page will know the purpose of the course, the goals, and see how it is broken down. Clarity in layout and contextualization can help reduce the stress of the participant and provide direction on what to do.

You will also notice that now once a topic has some...