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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 – customizing themes with theme customization forms


Several of the themes offered by Moodle have forms that give the user options for different settings in the theme. None of the forms are the same. Different themes give you control over different settings. You will need to spend some time and explore your options. The Splash theme has a setting form for it, so let's take that as our example.

  1. To view the themes with setting forms, go to the Site administration menu, select Appearance, and then select Themes.

  2. In the menu under Themes, below Theme settings and Theme selector, you will see the list of the themes that offer forms which give the user a few more options to customize the theme. See the following image.

  3. For our example, let's stick with the Splash theme. Select Splash from the menu.

  4. You will now be on the Splash settings page. You will see that you have several options for customization here. You can link to a logo image, create a tagline, add a footnote, or add any...