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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 groups in your course


To create a group in your course follow these steps:

  1. Make sure you are logged into your course as an administrator or teacher and editing is turned on.

  2. From the Course administration menu under the Settings block, select Users, and then select Groups.

  3. Click on the Create group button located at the bottom left of the screen.

  4. Enter the group name in the Group name field. For our example, enter "Safety L1".

  5. Enter a group description in the Group description text area if needed.

  6. Leave the Enrolment key blank for this example. In the future, if you add an enrolment key to your group and a user enrols in a course with that key, they will be automatically added to that group. This could be helpful once you have your course set up and want to automate enrolment in a track.

  7. If you want, you can assign a picture to a group. This is what the last two settings are about. If No is selected for the Hide picture setting, then if there is a picture associated with...