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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 a quiz


Your first step in creating the competency test using the Moodle quiz module is to create a quiz and set up the conditional availability to the competency test. We will set it up so that only applicants with a score greater than 85% will be allowed to move on to the next step and take the competency test.

  1. Create a label for Section 2 using the process you used for Section 1. Call Section 2 Competency Test.

  2. Under the Add an activity... menu in Section 2, select Quiz.

  3. You will then be brought to the Adding a new Quiz page. On this page you will enter the title of the quiz in the Name field. For our example, we will keep it simple and call it Competency Test.

  4. In the Introduction field, enter the instructions for the quiz. These usually cover any instructions or tips you would like to give the user. For our example, we've listed the number of questions and the time they have to take the exam. Refer to the next screenshot.

  5. The next two fields are Open the quiz and...