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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 choice module


All the top applicants have passed the competency test by the quiz close date. You now want to schedule interviews with these applicants during the following week. To facilitate this, you need to know when applicants are available for interviews. We'll create a choice module in Moodle where we let applicants select the best times available for them:

  1. From the course home page, with editing turned on, go to the section you would like to add the choice module to and from the Add an activity... drop-down menu select Choice. For this example, we are going to create this module in Section 3, for the third stage in the hiring process, which I have entitled Interviews.

  2. You are now on the Adding a new Choice page. See the next screenshot. In the General section, enter the Choice name and Introduction text:

  3. The Limit section is the next section on the page. Here you can limit the number of applicants that can select each choice. If you want to enable this option...