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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 RSS in a forum


Now that we have enabled RSS at the site level, we can enable RSS in a forum. By enabling RSS, users can add the news feed from the forum to their preferred RSS reader.

  1. Log in as a site admin or course teacher and go to your Community of Practice course.

  2. Click on the forum you want to enable for RSS feeds. Then select Edit settings from the forum Settings menu.

  3. If you have enabled RSS feeds at the site level and enabled them for forums, you will see a new area in the settings page labeled RSS. There are two options for enabling your RSS feed.

  4. Set RSS feed for this activity to either Discussion or Posts. If you set it to Discussion, then each discussion will appear as a news item in your RSS feed. If you want each post to be a news item in the feed, select Posts from the drop-down.

  5. The number of RSS recent articles sets the number of articles to display in the RSS feed. Most often you will set this to a number larger than 5.

  6. Save your changes by selecting...