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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

Implementing role-playing


One way to assess someone's grasp of the product is to conduct a role-play where one participant tries to sell the product to another. As a sales training role-play, it can be useful to run a few different role-plays where the potential buyer knows more or less about the product to see how the discussions progress.

Once you have the role play scenario thought out, the next step is to choose which of the activities available online are suitable for the delivery.

There are multiple ways to run such role-playing online:

  • You can use a real-time audio tool, where people speak but have no visual cues

  • You can use full video conferencing, where the visual aspect always comes into play

  • And you can use a text chat where there is only what is written, and no audio or visual cues

Moodle integrates with a wide range of third-party conferencing software which can cater for the first two scenarios, but it has a very strong real-time chat activity which is suitable for tackling the third...