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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 the database fields


In the Fields tab of the database we created, you can create the fields that will store the data you want your users to enter. For an annotated bibliography, we want to create fields for a resource name, a synopsis, a pointer to the resource (most likely a URL), an area to upload a resource, a time added field, and some topic categories.

  1. To create the resource name field, select Text from the field drop-down list. Give it a name using the Field Name field and set autolink to allow any mention of the resource to be linked back to the original entry.

  2. The synopsis field will require more space than the resource name. Select text area to create a larger text entry field (like the instruction fields in most Moodle activities).

  3. Next, we want to add two fields for the resource itself. We want to add a URL field for a web resource and a file upload field if the user wants to upload the file directly to Moodle.

  4. Add a URL field type by selecting Url from...