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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 reflection


The Adobe Connect Pro meeting room system uses the Adobe Flash Player to render and control the screen and the camera/microphone. As part of the "requirement" analysis, you will need to consider if everyone can use Flash, and if so, this virtual meeting room solution is a good addition to Moodle.

As shown the module provides options to set the different roles from within Moodle. How would you use these roles? Are there times when someone other than the trainer or teacher would be given Presenter rights or Host rights? How would you set it up to have a group collaborate together on a plan?

Have a go hero – creating more rooms

You are requested to organise a mini in-house training day on a number of different specialist topics which will have attendees from both on-site and remote locations. You need to set up a course which will provide local users access to materials and the ability to interact with other specialists in their area. How would you go about setting up the Moodle...