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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 the moderator role


To create a community moderator role, we will create a basic role at the site level, and then assign that role to a participant at the forum level within our "community of practice" course.

  1. From the main page on the site, select Site Administration from the Settings block. Then select Users | Permissions | Define Roles.

  2. On the Define Roles page, select the Add a new role button.

  3. Moodle will then display the Adding a new role page. Name your new role Community Moderator.

  4. The role Short name is used to assign the role through external data sources, so you'll want a short name without special characters or even spaces. I've given this role the name of CommMod.

  5. The Description should tell other admins the purpose of the role. In this example, the role is used to assign community moderators in a course.

  6. The Role Archetype defines the base permission set of the role. This makes it easier to create roles based on existing roles. For this example, we want...