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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

Background on web conferencing


There are a lot of products available which provide some level of synchronous audio, video, or collaboration and it can be a lot of work going through the process of assessing each one, for features and for integration with Moodle.

The Moodle community website has a forum dedicated to discussions about the various web conferencing plugins, so this is a good place to look for information about what is available and useful.

The community forum is at http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=7797.

The Moodle community website also has a plugin database of add-ons which is open to download by everyone. If you search through this with a variety of keywords such as conference, meeting, and so on, you will find a range of applications. Some of these are up-to-date and some others have not been updated in over a year. Some of the better known ones are:

  • Adobe Connect Pro

  • BigBlueButton

  • Elluminate Live

  • OpenMeetings

The plugin database is found on the Moodle community website...