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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)

Branding the mobile app

In the previous chapter, we covered the setup, installation, and usage of the Moodle Workplace app. We deliberately left out the branding functionality, which we are going to deal with in this section. We will first cover remote themes, which allow the basic branding of the mobile app. Next, we will briefly look at the branded Moodle Workplace app, a commercial alternative provided by Moodle HQ. Finally, we will cover the handling of app banners, which deal with handling the site when it is accessed from a mobile browser.

To centrally modify the app's look and feel, go to Site administration | Mobile app | Mobile appearance.

Mobile appearance

The app makes use of a so-called remote theme; that is, the styles are specified elsewhere—in Moodle Workplace itself—and loaded dynamically to each mobile device. A single CSS file has to be provided, which overrides the styles from the default theme; that is, your new CSS file should have only...