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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 – find and install the Module


The first thing we are going to do is to download the module to your machine.

  1. Open your web browser and go to the webpage http://www.moodle.org.

  2. In the top Menu, you have an option Downloads. Click on this and select the Modules and Plugins option. This brings up the database of modules, and shows the most recent entries in the database.

  3. Click on the Search tab.

  4. Type the word BigBlueButton into the Name field in the search form and click on Save Settings. The page will now load with two options, the Easy Integration with BigBlueButton and the BigBlueButton. For the purpose of these instructions, we will be using the Easy Integration with BigBlueButton created by Fred Dixon (Blindside Networks).

  5. Click on the name of the module you need (in my case Easy Integration with BigBlueButton). This brings up the full view of the module database entry including the type, requirements, status, names of maintainers and other information like the description and...