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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 a field to the database


We have already selected the four fields that we are going to ask the participants to complete, so now we need to decide what format they will be; for the four fields chosen they will all be text areas. The four fields we will use are going to add Product Description, Product Capabilities, Product Applications, and Product Advantages. However, as it is clear this relates to the product, we drop the word Product from the field names.

It is very important to know the order you want them created in, or it will require some complicated HTML and template editing later to alter the presentation of the information.

  1. From the Fields tab, click on the Choose drop down and select Textarea.

  2. Put the first field name (Description) into the Field name field.

  3. Put the same information into the Field description field. Although with complicated names these two fields can be different, I like to keep them the same to remove confusion later on when editing.

  4. Leave...