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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 – editing topic summaries


The Topics Format as you can see is just a list of numbered topics with no context. This allows you to decide how to structure and order the content. First, let us put some structure to this empty course by adding the titles to each topic.

From my sample lesson plan I have my three lesson titles, so I will use these to name my topics as follows:

  1. In Topic 1 (with the number one beside it) click on the Edit icon.

  2. Un-tick Use default section name. This allows you to customize the topic title for navigation.

  3. Type the lesson name into the Section name field. I always use topic1 as the introduction to a course rather than topic0, so let's put Introduction here. However, why I recommend this needs explanation.

    When you use the facility to focus on one topic at a time in a Moodle course, it shows topic0 and the topic you are focusing on. So if you put much more than the course name, and perhaps the intro forum in topic0, it pushes the topic you are looking at...