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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 – creating the database


Before we start, return to the course view page and make sure editing is turned on. It is a good habit to turn editing off whenever you are not editing the course as this can help reduce mishaps of deletions, or moving items around.

  1. We want to create a product knowledge test form in Topic 4. Scroll down to Topic 4.

  2. Click on Add an activity and select Database from the drop down.

  3. Enter Product Knowledge Assessment into the Name field.

  4. As with other assignments it is important to use the Introduction field to explain the purpose of the activity and to clarify what exactly is required from the participants. Please fill out the Introduction along those lines:

  5. The four date options can be ignored for now. They are required in different use cases.

  6. The Required entries should only be enabled if you are using course tracking for completion. If not, like now, just leave it at None.

  7. Set the Entries required before viewing to 1. This requires the participant to submit...