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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 9: Seminar Management

Face-to-face training is still a key component in most organizations' staff development strategies. This can either be purely in classroom-based setups—for instance, in the form of seminars and one-on-one training sessions—in blended settings where in-person activities are accompanied by online learning, or synchronous virtual sessions, such as webinars. In this chapter, we will look at Moodle Workplace's appointment facility to organize and manage face-to-face training activities, also known as seminar management.

First, you will learn about Workplace's unique approach to seminars, which is based on the Appointment booking activity, comprising appointments and sessions.

Second, we will be dealing with the management of appointments, where you will be adding appointment bookings, appointments, and sessions. You will further manage the appointment workflow, which covers steps such as signing up to and canceling an appointment...