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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 – Unzipping and uploading


Unzip the module download file using your available application. This should create a folder called bbb_activity_module_moodle20. Inside this folder, there is a mod folder which contains the actual bigbluebutton folder of files.

  1. Using your FTP client, connect to your Moodle site host server.

  2. Using your FTP client, browse to the mod folder inside your Moodle installation and to the mod folder in your bbb_activity_module_moodle20 folder.

  3. Select the local mod/bigbluebutton folder and upload this to the mod folder on the Moodle server.

  4. Once all the files are uploaded, you need to log into your Moodle site.

  5. Once logged in as admin, you will be prompted to upgrade to include the new plugin.

  6. Click on the Upgrade button at the bottom of the page.

  7. If the installation has gone well, the screen will display the name of the mod followed by Success. You then click on the Continue Button.

  8. One of the nice things about using this module is that it comes with some test...