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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

Adding an Outcome to an activity


Some activities work well with Outcomes and some don't work at all with Outcomes—this is usually related to a design decision for the grading mechanisms of that activity. Some activities allow you to set an Outcome when creating or editing the activity. There are exceptions to this, for example, the Choice activity.

For most of the activities, you grade the Outcome(s) at the same time as grading the activity. However, this only works for modules that have inbuilt grading. For those of other activities, you would need to go into the gradebook to grade the Outcome for the activity.

The gradebook is a repository for all the grades attributed to a person in a course. When a grade is awarded on an activity, the activity pushes that grade into the gradebook. It is also possible to edit and award the grades directly in the gradebook. But enough about that for now.

The following table shows which activities can use Outcomes and where they need to be graded. If you plan...