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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 3: Exploring Moodle Courses, Users, and Roles

The objective of this chapter is to give you a quick rundown of the core concepts and features of Moodle that are available in all Moodle distributions, including Moodle Workplace.

The underlying foundation of Moodle is based on courses, users, and roles. The three concepts are inherently intertwined, and any one of these cannot be used without the other two. We will deal with the basics of the three core elements in this Moodle primer and show you how they work together. Let's see what they are:

  • Moodle courses are central to Workplace as this is where the actual learning takes place. You will be introduced to courses and how they are organized in categories. You will also learn about the key ingredients of courses, namely activities and resources.
  • Moodle users are the individuals accessing your Workplace system. We will cover the basic concepts of authentication – how to get access to Moodle –...