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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 question and answer forums


You learned how to create a general forum in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Moodle and you could certainly apply that here for simplicity purposes. For this application let's look at another type of forum Moodle offers—the Question and Answer Forum. Let's go back to our example. You are in a company that has several people interview the applicants. After the interviews, all these people need to come to an agreement on whom to hire. You want everyone's unbiased opinion on the applicant. The Question and Answer Forum is a good tool to use for this. This type of forum requires people to respond to the questions in the forum before they are allowed to view other people's responses. So each interviewer can give their opinion without being influenced by others.

  1. From the main course page, in the same section we entitled, "Resources for the Interview", from the Add an activity… drop-down menu select Forum.

  2. You are now on the Adding a new Forum...