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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 the random glossary entry block


Make sure you have returned to your course page by clicking on the short name in the navigation block. When creating a course I usually remove all of the blocks except for the Navigation and Settings blocks. This forces you to justify to yourself on which blocks to add from a teaching/learning point of view.

  1. To add this new block we need to scroll down so we can see the Add a block option:

  2. Click on the drop down and select the Random glossary entry from the list (it is near the bottom of the list).

  3. Once it is added you will need to configure it using the edit icon, so click on the edit icon in the new block immediately above the Add a block menu box.

  4. Some of the settings are already filled in, and in fact you don't need to change many settings. However, to start, change the Title to Important terms. This is the name that the block has in the course view page. Often people choose to have no block name, but this may not work with your theme...