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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 - enabling Mahara portfolio plugin


Now that you've enabled the basic Moodle networking to enable SSO, we need to enable the Mahara portfolio plugin. Like the repository system, the portfolio system is designed as a plugin architecture. Each system capable of being a portfolio system will have its own plugin. You need to enable it to make it available for users.

Tip

The Mahara plugin is a little different than many of the portfolio plugins. You cannot activate it until you've finished the preceding networking configuration.

  1. Login to Moodle as an administrator.

  2. From the Site administration menu, select Advanced features. Then select the Enable Portfolios checkbox.

  3. Then select Plugins and Authentication from the Site administration menu. Select the Manage Authentication page.

  4. Click on the Enable button next to the the MNet Authentication plugin.

  5. From the Site administration menu, select Plugins and then select Portfolios.

  6. Select Manage Portfolios.

  7. In the Manage portfolios page, set the...