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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 – creating a BigBlueButton activity


As always, make sure that you are in a test course, or go into an existing course which you have editing rights on. Make sure that Editing is turned on to allow you to add activities and let's begin.

  1. Scroll to the topic that you want to include the BigBlueButton Meeting activity in.

  2. Select the Add an activity drop down and choose the BigBlueButton option. This brings up the Adding a new BigBlueButton to Topic 1 screen.

  3. Type Test BigBlueButton in the Virtual classroom name field.

  4. If you want to force the students to wait until a moderator joins, you can select that here. It is selected by default. For now, leave it ticked.

  5. Click on Save and Return to course and your BigBlueButton meeting will now be set up.

  6. If you click on the link Test BigBlueButton, then it will auto-forward you to the BigBlueButton meeting room.

  7. Once you have finished this, you can return to course. Your meeting is now ready configured with times, grades, and users.

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