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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

Case study


The Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) provides continuing education courses, on-site seminars, and regional conferences for elected school board members. In an effort to enhance the delivery mechanisms for training, TASB sought alternative modes for providing training to its members through an online Learning Management System (LMS).

Why did you choose Moodle?

After conducting research on LMS applications with the greatest market share among organizations of size similar to TASB, we decided that Moodle met our requirements best.

The decision to implement Moodle as the LMS to house online content considered many factors: Low cost and no licensing fee, a wide range of features and flexibility, the large network of Moodle users, ability to incorporate "add-on" modules to enhance functionality, interest among other state school board associations to develop a similar solution on the same platform, and the availability of a third-party vendor (Remote-Learner) to provide hosting...