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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

Using BigBlueButton with Moodle


BigBlueButton is another virtual classroom solution. BigBlueButton also uses Flash to load the classroom just like Adobe Connect. BigBlueButton is a new product and has features similar to Adobe Connect including the provision of screen sharing, whiteboard, presentation upload, text chat, audio chat, web cam, and some classroom tools. BigBlueButton is built by combining over fourteen open source components to make an integrated solution that runs on Mac, Unix, or Windows computers.

You will find full information about this product on the http://www.bigbluebutton.org website. There is a lot of good information on the website, and it provides detailed information on the various components that make up the product and a product feature overview. BigBlueButton has been integrated into a range of open source platforms including Joomla, Wordpress, and Moodle.

You can get the latest version of the BigBlueButton code itself. You can go to the BigBlueButton Google Code...