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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 - exporting from a forum to Google Docs


So now we have allowed users to export their materials from Moodle to Google Docs. Next let's look at how a user would take a forum post and export it to Moodle.

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A word about Google Docs accounts in Moodle

Google Docs logins are stored by Moodle, the first time a user uses either the repository or the portfolio plugins. If they are already logged into Google Docs when they access these plugins for the first time, they will only see the security warning as described previously. If they have already accepted the security warning, they will be able to use the plugins without any further action on their part. You should note that Moodle will use whatever account they have logged into when they access either function the first time. So if they are logged into a personal account when they should be using their work account, they will link their Moodle Account to the wrong Google Account. As of this writing, changing that account required...