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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 groupings


Now we are ready to create groupings in our course. To create a grouping, follow these steps.

  1. From the Course administration menu select Users and then select Groups.

  2. At the top of the new screen, select the Groupings tab.

  3. Click on the Create grouping button.

  4. Enter a grouping name of Basic Safety in the Grouping name field.

  5. If desired, enter a description in the Grouping description text area.

  6. Click on the Save changes button.

  7. Then follow steps 1 to 5 again and create two more groupings for our example. Name the groupings: Intermediate Safety and Advanced Safety.

  8. Now we need to add the groups to the groupings. From the Groupings page, under the Edit column, select the show groups in grouping icon. It is the icon that looks like a group of people. Since the Advanced Safety grouping is first, we will add the groups to this grouping first.

  9. Once you select the show groups in grouping icon, you will be on the Add/remove groups: Advanced Safety page. In the list of...