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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 content from Alfresco to Moodle


Now that you've added some content into Alfresco, it's time to add that content to your Moodle course.

  1. Login to Moodle as a user with course editing privileges.

  2. Turn on Editing Mode and select File from the Add a resource.. menu in the course section where you want the link to appear.

  3. Give the file a name. Remember the name will be the link the user selects to get the file, so be descriptive.

  4. Add a description of the file.

  5. In the Content section, click the Add.. button to bring up the file browser.

  6. Select the Alfresco repository you previously created.

  7. Login to Alfresco using your Alfresco username and password.

  8. Browse through the available Alfresco spaces to find your user folder and the file you want to add.

  9. Select the file by clicking on the link.

  10. On the next screen, you can rename the file to save it locally, edit the author name, and select a copyright license for the file.

  11. Click on Select this File.

  12. The options for the file are the same...