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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 - adding a Google Doc to your Moodle course


After you have configured the Google Docs plugin, you can add Google Docs to your course.

  1. Login to Moodle as a user with course editing privileges.

  2. Turn on the editing mode and select File from the Add a resource.. menu in the course section where you want the link to appear.

  3. Give the file a name. Remember the name will be the link the user selects to get the file, so be descriptive.

  4. Add a description of the file.

  5. In the Content section, click the Add.. button to bring up the file browser.

  6. Click the Google Docs plugin in the File Picker pop-up window.

  7. The first time you access Google Docs from Moodle, you will see a login button on the screen.

  8. Click the button and Moodle will take you to the Google Docs login page.

  9. Login to Google Docs. Docs will now display a security warning, letting you know an external application (Moodle) is trying to access your file repository. Click on the Grant Access button at the bottom of the screen.

  10. Now you will...