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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 - Assigning the role to a user in a forum


Now that we have created the role, we need to assign it to a user in a forum. By assigning the Community Moderator role to a user in the forum context, we can allow that user the ability to edit the forum independently of the course creator.

  1. Go back to the CoP class and click the Turn editing on button.

  2. Select Forum from the Add an Activity menu.

  3. Give the forum a name. I've used Moderated Forum.

  4. Set the Description of the forum as you've done previously.

  5. For now, leave everything else as a default and click on Save and display.

  6. On the main forum page, select Locally assigned roles from the Settings block on the left.

  7. Select the Community Moderator role from the list of roles to assign.

  8. You'll then see the list of users enrolled in the course in a pick list on the right side of the screen and the users assigned to the role on the left. Select your community moderators on the right and click Add to assign them the Community Moderator role on...