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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 - Enabling RSS


RSS feeds need to be enabled at the site level before you can use them in an activity. So let's do that first.

  1. Log in to your site as the site administrator.

  2. From the front page, find the Site Administration area. To search for all RSS related settings, type RSS into the search box.

  3. To allow any activity to use RSS, we need to enable it at the site level first. Select the checkbox next to Enable RSS feeds in the Advanced features box. You will then need to scroll down to the bottom of the screen and Save changes before you can enable feeds in specific activities.

  4. After you select Save changes, the drop-down menus for the Enable RSS feeds for Database, Forum, and Glossary should change from Disabled at server level to a No/Yes selection. For now, let's enable RSS feeds for Database and Forum activities by setting Enable RSS feeds to Yes.

  5. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select Save changes once again.

  6. Each forum and database activity on the site can now...