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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 an Outcome to a course


So we have already added the Outcomes to the site. Now let's go through the steps required to enable one Outcome for your course.

  1. Log in as admin, or a teacher who has the rights to Mahara Product Course.

  2. Using the Navigation block, click on the course name to browse to the course.

  3. In the Settings block, under Course administration, click on the Outcomes link.

  4. You will see that this brings you to a page under Grade administration. That is because Outcomes are directly related to grading. You should see an image like the following one. There are no Outcomes in the left column as we have not yet selected any for the course.

  5. Select Mahara Benefits from the column Available standard outcomes.

  6. Click on the Add button and this will add the Mahara Benefits to the left-hand column. You will also notice that it has Standard not used above it to indicate that it has not been used in an activity yet.

  7. Select Mahara Description from the column Available standard...