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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

Some points to keep in mind


As already discussed, there are a wide range of roles in an organization which require adequate product knowledge to be effective in supporting the rollout of a product.

The sales force needs access to up-to-date product knowledge, descriptions, and benefits, so they can be effective in providing solutions to existing and new customers.

The support staff needs access to not only product knowledge used in sales, but also a deeper knowledge in other areas so that they can respond effectively to internal and external queries.

The finance department needs access to the underlying principles of the product, the costs of creation, delivery, and support, so they can manage and understand the impact to the bottom line.

The marketing staff needs access to the whole range of product knowledge to deliver supporting advertising and promotion.

The end users need product training on how to use the product effectively.

While going through each of the sections, keep in mind all of...