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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 a wiki to the community site


To create a wiki in your community site:

  1. Log in to Moodle as an administrator. Create a course for your "community of practice" following the instructions from Chapter 1 , Getting Started with Moodle.

  2. Turn editing on in your course.

  3. Select Wiki from the Add an Activity menu in the first section.

  4. On the Adding a new Wiki page, give the wiki a name. Give the wiki a descriptive name that explains the purpose of the wiki. For example, call the wiki Troubleshooting Procedures rather than something vaguer like Community Wiki.

  5. Fill in the wiki description area with instructions to the users about the purpose of the wiki and any suggestions for community standards or referencing. Do all of their statements need references? What sort of language is expected? Is the tone of the wiki formal or informal?

  6. In the wiki settings area, change the name of the first page. Make the name specific to help your audience understand the purpose of the wiki. For example...