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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 chat


Using a Moodle chat for a sales role play scenario has a few strong benefits. The first is that before people send the message to the chat, they are able to edit it and so can be happy with what they are saying. It's a bit less immediate however, when just learning a product. This can help support that learning process. Secondly the chat sessions can be logged and kept for a long period of time, either just for the trainers' access or for the participants too. This provides people with options to go back through the role-play and analyze what was said and reflect on them after the fact.

  1. We are going to create a chat session in Topic 4. So before we begin, go to the course view page and make sure that editing is turned on.

  2. Scroll down to Topic 4 and click on the Add an activity.

  3. Select Chat from the drop-down menu.

  4. As with all activities and resources, the name field is very important. This is the text that appears on the course view. Type Role-Play: Want to...