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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 – screening the resumes/CVs


Imagine you are the HR manager for a company. You have advertised the job opening, set up your Moodle course for the open position, and created an Assignment where applicants can submit their resume/CV. Today you just received an e-mail notifying you that someone has submitted his or her resume by uploading it to the assignment you created previously. Now you need to conduct the initial screening to see how good a match the candidate is for the open position.

  1. Go to the course created for the position and select the assignment you created for applicants to submit their resumes. You will be brought to the assignment page. In the top right-hand corner you will see a link, View # submitted assignments. Select the link. You will then be brought to the window shown in the following screenshot:

  2. You will then see a table of the applicants who have submitted a resume/CV or application form. You can review their submission by selecting the Grade link. Read...