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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learnt how to apply Outcomes to help track user competencies in Moodle. We looked at two case studies, the National Health Institute of Italy and the Gulf Agency Company and their use of Moodle in managing on-going professional development.

Specifically, we covered the following:

  • You need to select the scale when creating the Outcome. Therefore, when considering Outcomes, you need to think about the scales that you want to measure the Outcomes with.

  • Although you can go back and add Outcomes one at a time, it is more practical to build a CSV spreadsheet and import the Outcomes in bulk.

  • It is important to align the objectives and Outcomes with the course as the Outcomes are only available to activities when they have been added to the course first.

  • It is possible to add a course level Outcome which is not available throughout the site. However, this is not always a wise thing to do. The risk is that someone else may create the same Outcome in another course and they...