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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

Chapter 5. CPD and Competency Tracking with Moodle

In Chapter 3, Rollout Products and Services with Moodle, we looked at using Moodle to help build product knowledge among staff. Outcomes can be used to help map the product knowledge of your staff as it is acquired. To do this, you will need to think about what Outcomes you are looking to map in each learning area. Some professions have gone through extensive processes and research to help define a set of competencies which can be applied to their industry.

However, when it comes to products rather than skills you do need to think about the definition and come up with a set of Outcomes that you want people to be able to do after the training. These may be different for each profession and role, and often can go down to great detail. However, you do need to consider what level of detail is practical for training and assessment.

After product training, you may want someone to be able to:

  • Describe the product

  • Explain what the product can be used...