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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 - creating the basic database shell


To begin creating a database, we need to set up the basic activity.

  1. With the course in editing mode, select Database from the Add an Activity menu.

  2. On the next screen Adding a new Database to Topic, enter the name of the database. For now, let's just call it Annotated Bibliography.

  3. In the Introduction area, be sure to tell the community members what the database is for.

  4. The Available and Viewable dates should probably be left disabled for a community shared resource. If you want to restrict availability of the database, you will select the Enable checkbox next to the setting, and then select the date.

  5. The Required entries setting allows you to require community members to submit a certain number of entries before the activity can be considered complete. If you want to formally recognize contributors by checking off the activity when they have contributed a pre-defined level of resources, then you could use this setting. Otherwise, leave it set...