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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 – creating a glossary


Now that you know that you need a glossary, the steps for creating a glossary for your course terminology is straightforward.

  1. Ensure that editing is turned on (click Turn Editing On).

  2. In Topic 1 (Introduction) click on the Add an activity drop down, and select Glossary from the options.

    Note

    Although there are a lot of options, to create a simple glossary we just need to focus on a few of the fields.

  3. This glossary will be for Product Terminology, so fill this in as the Name of the glossary.

  4. Description is very important in most activities, and the glossary is no different. This provides the context around the content which appears in the glossary. So fill in some text explaining why the glossary is here and for what purpose it is added.

  5. Leave the default Entries shown per page, as ten is a good amount. However, you may want to change this to more or less depending on the size of each entry to avoid too much scrolling.

  6. As this glossary is related to the Mahara...