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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 – editing flat file enrollment plugin settings


You've enabled the flat file enrollment plugin and created your enrollment flat file. Now it's time to edit the plugin settings and enroll the new hires in the safety training course.

  1. Go back to the settings page for the flat file plugin. In Site administration menu, select Plugins, select Enrollments, select Manage enrol plugins, and click on Settings to the right of Flat file (CSV).

  2. The first setting is for File location. This is where you enter the full path to the enrollment.csv file on your server. I am running Moodle on my local machine so I will enter /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/enrollments.csv for this setting.

  3. The next three settings allow you to notify students, teachers, or administrators by e-mail when they have been enrolled in a course. We are going to check the box to the right of Notify students by email so that the new hires know when they have been enrolled and can begin the training course.

  4. The last section is Flat...