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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 – changing the site header


One of the most visible changes you can make to your theme is changing the header. The header appears across the top of every page and is one of the first things your users will see on your website. If you can, make your Moodle header reflect your corporate website's look and feel, it's a quick and easy way to make your Moodle solution seem more integrated into your corporate network.

Changing the header in one of the standard Moodle themes is relatively straightforward. Moodle themes are stored on the server in the Theme folder. To change the header, you will need access to the Moodle folder in your web server's root directory. Of course, if you are working on a copy of Moodle on your laptop, this is usually not an issue.

To change the site header:

  1. Go to the Moodle folder on your web server. If you are not working directly on your laptop, you will usually need to use FTP or SSH to log into the server.

  2. From the Moodle folder, select the Theme folder...