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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 – adding questions to the quiz


We've set up the shell for our Competency Test and applied the conditional access. Now let's create the questions that will be covered in the exam. Moodle 2.0 has 11 different question types. For now we will focus on the two question types you are most likely to use to set up a Competency Test: Multiple Choice and Essay.

  1. From the page you ended at in the previous screenshot, select Add a question.... The Choose a question type to add window will then pop up. Choose Multiple choice from the menu of question types and select Next.

  2. Accept the default setting for Category. Later in the next section you will learn how to create a new category.

  3. Enter the title of the question in the Question name field. We will call this Question No. 1 in our example.

  4. Enter the question in the Question text field.

  5. In the Default question grade field enter the score for each question. We will leave it as the default and the question will be worth one point.

  6. The next field...