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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 an activity


To create an activity, we must first either create a test course, or go into an existing course which you have editing rights on. As always, when planning changes, make sure that editing is turned on to allow you to add activities.

  1. In the topic you want to add the Adobe Connect activity, select the Add an activity dropdown and select the Adobe Connect option. This brings up the Adding a new Adobe Connect screen.

  2. As normal with activities, the first field is the text which appears on the course page for the link to the activity. Type Test Adobe Connect Room in the Adobe Connect field.

  3. The Intro field should hold any guidance information that you want participants to follow when entering the room. This could be information about login (if you are using the hosted account) or a link to the "Acceptable User Guidelines" for interactions in virtual classrooms.

  4. The Meeting URL is an optional field. If you want to customize the URL of the room you can do so. However...