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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

Creating groups and groupings to manage employees going through training


Many companies have different levels of training for different job classifications. For example, in a construction company everyone in the company needs basic safety training. Employees in the field will need more advanced safety training for working around heavy equipment. Finally, a few employees who handle hazardous materials will need very specific, advanced safety training on the handling of hazardous materials. In this section, we will explore how to use groups and groupings to filter the resources and activities in a course so that only the employees who need certain training will receive it.

In Moodle, a group is a group of users who can work together on an activity while remaining separate from other groups. For example, if a forum is set up for groups, members of the group will only be able to reply to forum postings from members of their own group. If you choose this option, you can even prevent them from...