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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 - edit the display template for a database


The default layout for the display templates in Moodle is usually not refined enough to use on a community site. Since the templates are automatically generated, the display is usually too generic. We'll look at how to change the List template in this example. Many of the skills we will learn here will enable us to modify other templates.

  1. Select your database as a user with editing privileges for the course.

  2. From the database page, select the Templates tab. From this page, you can edit the display templates for the database.

  3. Select the List template from the list below the tabs. We'll focus on this template for this example. We would like to create a list view with each resource on one row.

  4. The Header field displays the header for the page. It is only displayed once, so we'll use it as the header row in our list. We want it to display the name of each field which we will display in the list view. Create a table of one row with five columns...