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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 – enabling Outcomes


Outcomes are an advanced feature of Moodle 2, and as such, only an administrator can enable or disable them.

  1. Log in as the initial Moodle administrator or as a user with Administrator role.

  2. Look at the Settings block.

  3. Expand the Site Administration tree of options.

  4. Click on Advanced features. Advanced features is the third option, after Notifications and Registration.

  5. The first option on the Advanced features page is Enable outcomes, which is defaulted to No.

  6. Tick the box beside Enable outcomes.

  7. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on Sa ve changes.

What just happened?

Now you have enabled Outcomes for your Moodle site. This is just the first step. Now we will need to add some Outcomes into the Moodle system so that they can be used in courses and in activities.

However, before we add an Outcome, let's add a custom scale suitable to our needs. For knowledge, we will select a simple proficiency scale of basic, proficient, and advanced. You could come up with...