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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

Summary


We've covered a lot of fairly technical ground in this chapter. Managing repositories and portfolios requires some technical configuration, but the benefits of both systems can far outweigh the initial effort required. Once you have the systems set up, you usually don't have to worry about the configuration unless something in your system changes.

In this chapter:

  • We set up Alfresco and Google Docs to act as file repositories for Moodle

  • We practiced adding content to Alfresco and linking that to Moodle

  • We also looked at setting up Alfresco to help automate some of the content conversion services

  • We practiced setting up your Google Docs account and linking to content from Google Docs

  • On the portfolio side, we practiced setting up a basic Mahara instance, as well as linking the Portfolio system to Google Docs

  • We set up a Mahara view to share content from Moodle

  • We exported forum content to Google Docs for editing and sharing

There is a lot more to learn about Alfresco, Mahara and integrating...