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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Many people will recognize Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment that can be used in schools to teach lessons and organize student information. Fewer people will realize that Moodle can be used in businesses to dispense training, share important documents, and encourage teamwork. Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide will show you how to set up Moodle in your corporation. By introducing a system within your company that will allow for a centralized, accessible repository of knowledge, staff training will become a lot more streamlined, and the retention of skills will improve, leading to huge productivity benefits. An easy-to-access, user-friendly system is crucial to keep communication flowing in any successful business. By putting your H.R. documents, newsletters, discussions, and training documents all in one place, which is accessible from the office or from home, you are giving your employees all the information that they need to be productive and become integrated members of your company. This book will show you how to get your important business documents online, as well as the recruitment and training processes. You will learn how to move any existing processes to Moodle, as well as set up new ones that will have you wondering what you did before Moodle came along!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – how to enable self registration


Follow the steps below to enable self registration:

  1. Log in to your Moodle site as the admin.

  2. On your home page, go to the Site administration menu under the Settings block, and select Plugins, as shown in the next screenshot:

  3. Then select Authentication and then Manage authentication. You will then be at the screen shown below:

  4. In the Manage authentication screen, first make sure that the Email-based self-registration is enabled. You will know if something is enabled if the eye next to it is open.

  5. Click the Settings link to the right of the Email-based self-registration setting. This will take you to the settings page for the plugin.

  6. On the plugins setting screen, set the Enable reCAPTCHA element to Yes. ReCAPTCHA is a system for preventing spammers from using programs to create accounts on your system. It generates a random string of numbers and letters that are difficult to process with code.

  7. Next, on the same screen, scroll down to the Common...