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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 – testing your lesson


We have now gone over all the fundamentals you need to create a lesson. Before we move on, we should test what we have created to make sure it is working properly.

  1. Currently you should be on the Edit tab for the lesson you created. To the left of the Edit tab is the Preview tab. These are located at the top of the page. Click on the Preview tab.

  2. You will now be on the 1st page of the lesson, which was the content page we created. You will see the two choices displayed horizontally below the content as we specified earlier. See the following screenshot:

  3. Select the first choice, Grab the fire extinguisher and look for smoke.

  4. Now you will be on the question page. This is correct. We created this jump in the previous section. Select an answer and see if you get the response we created earlier in the question page.

What just happened?

You just set up a scenario based lesson on fire safety. In the process, you learned the basic tools needed to create a lesson...