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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)

Managing tenants

One of the masterpieces of Moodle Workplace is the introduction of multi-tenancy and its consistent application throughout. We define multi-tenancy as a single instance of Moodle that serves multiple client organizations (tenants), where its data and configuration are virtually partitioned and each client organization works with a customized virtual application instance.

In the context of Moodle Workplace, this means the ability to enable the configuration for multiple tenants with different themes and permissions, keeping them separated so that users in one tenant cannot see the users in another. Each tenant has its own users (an admin, supervisors, and employees), hierarchies, roles, dynamic rules, theme settings, reports, and learning entities (courses, programs, and certifications).

Not all the elements in Workplace are multi-tenant-aware; that is, some features can only be configured globally and not at the tenant level. For example, at the time of writing...