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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

Case Study – Adapt


Adapt is an association for international and comparative studies in the field of labor, law, and industrial relations. It has several research centers in Italy and abroad. The company has about 10 employers and about 200 co-workers, mainly PhD students from different research fields (Law, Modern Languages, Human Sciences, Economics, Education, International Relations, and so on).

What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?

Our need was to find a place where we could meet from different parts of the world in order to share materials for our activities, to organize the company, and update the whole group about the different projects.

What was the solution and how did they arrive at the solution?

The solution was our Moodle site, not only for educational purpose (e-Learning), but for managing the company as well. We have just begun opening a "course" where our administration staff could upload documents that were useful for any member of the...