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Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By : Alex Büchner
Book Image

Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

Moodle Workplace is a comprehensive extension to Standard Moodle, the world's most used learning management system (LMS) platform, empowering millions of learners worldwide. Moodle Workplace is suitable for businesses and organizations, from small enterprises to global corporations. Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace is a comprehensive introduction to this latest product from Moodle, which facilitates collaborative learning in enterprises and larger teams. Complete with detailed descriptions, a variety of diagrams, and real working examples, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to know to manage a Moodle Workplace system. You’ll learn how to manage your users along reporting lines and organize them in to tenants, organizations, positions, job assignments, and teams, before setting up typical HR processes such as induction, compliance, and reporting. Filled with real-world examples, the book covers blended and offline scenarios, including appointments and the Moodle Workplace mobile app. By the end of this Moodle book, you’ll have learned how to fully manage a Moodle Workplace instance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Chapter 1: What Is Moodle Workplace?

Here it is, a comprehensive guide to the new kid on the block: Moodle Workplace. You are invited to join this exciting journey through the latest variant of the most-used Learning Management System (LMS), Moodle.

Without further ado, let's get started. In this chapter, we will introduce Moodle Workplace and cover its various new key features. We will then compare this newly updated software with its little sibling, standard Moodle, and with Totara, the other popular Moodle distribution for learning in organizations and businesses. Then, we will explore Moodle Workplace's business model and its versioning policy.

So, we will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Introducing Moodle Workplace
  • Comparing Moodle Workplace and standard Moodle
  • Comparing Moodle Workplace and Totara Learn
  • Understanding Moodle Workplace's business model
  • Understanding Moodle Workplace versions