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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

Case study – Gulf Agency Company


The Gulf Agency Company (GAC) was established in 1956 and is now one of the world's leading global providers of shipping, logistics, marine, and related services. The company employs more than 8,000 staff and has close to 300 offices globally. Its corporate head office is located in Dubai, with four regional offices in Houston, Cairo, Dubai, and Singapore.

What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?

GAC launched the GAC Corporate Academy in 2007 to deliver new training opportunities to staff around the world. GAC Corporate Academy is a fundamental building block of the GAC Group's strategic plan, which recognizes that people and organizational learning are fundamental to GAC's business. A public overview of the GAC Corporate Academy is available at the portal page http://www.gacacademy.com.

Courses are available to all staff employed throughout the GAC Group, as well as nominated personnel from GAC Network Agents and cover a...