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Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By : Alex Büchner
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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)

Exploring the Moodle Workplace app

The Moodle Workplace app is based on the standard Moodle app and comes with some extra features to cater to the Workplace-specific functionalities, as well as another color scheme. The objective of this section is to list the key features of the Moodle app, before covering the features that are unique to the Moodle Workplace app in more detail.

This section comprises the following two sections:

  • The standard Moodle app
  • The Moodle Workplace app features

The standard Moodle app

While the standard Moodle app only supports a sub-set of learner-centric features, it has the advantage of being specifically designed for mobile usage and also supports offline content. The Workplace app is based on the Moodle app and contains all its functionality, as well as some Workplace-specific elements. Here is a short list of highlights of the features provided by the Moodle app (derived from docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_app):

  • Access the...