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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

Enabling Outcomes in Moodle


Outcomes, Competencies, and Goals are all terms for the same thing in Moodle. Once Outcomes are enabled site-wide and within a course, you can set up an activity which has one or more Outcomes associated with it and each of these Outcomes can have a grade associated with it. Normally, grades for Outcomes are created using a custom scale other than numbers.

However, unlike a normal grade, you can allocate an Outcome to a number of activities. This makes it quite powerful for use within building competency maps. So, when you grade an activity, you not only provide an overall grade for the activity, but also for the Outcome. Hence, someone could pass a test but display a less than desired level for the Outcome. More on this later.