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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

Enrollment plugins available in Moodle 2.0


You've figured out how you are going to authenticate users in Moodle and have learned how to set up two authentication plugins. We now need to consider how you are going to enroll users in courses. You may choose several different methods depending on the course and the purpose of the course. In Chapter 2, Moodle in Hiring and Interviewing we set up a course to manage the hiring process for a new position and we enabled self-enrollment so the applicant could enroll in a course that corresponded to the position they were interested in. This is one way to enroll users in a course.

You can also enroll users in courses manually. Teachers and Moodle administrators in a course can assign users a role and thereby enroll them in the course. At the end of Chapter 2, Moodle in Hiring and Interviewing, you also learned how to assign roles, and so we won't bother going into that again. However, there may be some instances where you want to automate course enrollment...