Book Image

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)

Preparing to use the Moodle Workplace app

Before users can learn new content, cooperate with colleagues, or monitor progress from a mobile device, there are several things to consider. First, a decision has to be made on how to access the learning management system, either from a mobile web browser or a dedicated app. The focus of this chapter is on the mobile app, which has to be enabled centrally. Users will have to download and install the app before the first login takes place. All these items will be covered in this section, starting with a short introduction about the two ways to access the Moodle Workplace app from a mobile device.

Accessing Moodle Workplace from mobile devices

Generally, there are two ways that a learner can access Moodle Workplace via a mobile device—directly via a web browser on a cell phone or a tablet, or via Moodle's app for iOS and Android.

The web browser view is effectively the same as we have seen throughout the book, only it is...