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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 Mahara to listen to Moodle


Once you've configured Moodle for Mahara networking, you must also enable Mahara to listen for Moodle users. There are two steps to this process. First, we need to enable networking at the site level. Then, we need to create an institution for the Moodle users in Mahara.

  1. Login to Mahara as a site admin.

  2. In the menu at the top of the page, click Site administration.

  3. From the Admin home page, select the Configure Site tab. Then select the Networking sub-tab.

  4. Set Enable networking to Yes.

  5. Be very careful if you decide to enable Auto-register all hosts. This will allow anyone who has a Moodle site and knows the URL of your Mahara instance to connect their Moodle to your Mahara.

  6. Click on Save changes.

  7. Now we need to create a new institution for your Moodle site. Institutions in Mahara are like sub-sites, with their own collection of users and peer groups. To start the process, click on the Institutions tab.

  8. From the Administer Institutions page, click...