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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 – creating the assignment


Collecting resumes or CVs is the first step in recruiting new employees. Moodle can be used to collect resumes from potential new candidates for an open position. In this example, we will use the Upload a single file Assignment type in our Moodle Course to enable users to submit applications.

  1. Log into Moodle as the Moodle admin and create a course on your test Moodle site by following the course creation instructions in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Moodle. For our example, I've entitled the course, Available Position . When you create the course, select the Topics format from the course settings.

  2. Go into the course created for the new position and turn editing on.

  3. We'll start by creating a label for section 1, so the user knows what they are supposed to do in each area of the course. Click the edit button at the top of the section.

  4. Uncheck the Use default section name checkbox at the top of the Summary of Topic 1 screen.

  5. Type the name of the section...