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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learnt about virtual web meeting solutions which can be used to extend our training with Moodle. We looked at the background to web conferencing, some of the main features and at some of the integration options.

We looked at two case studies, BP and Remote-Learner, in their use of Moodle and synchronous interactivity of participants. Each company had their own approach to enable students and each had their own process.

Specifically, we covered:

  • The main applications available for virtual meetings and Moodle

  • What types of integration are wanted and what are possible

  • We looked at key features and what was a must have, and what was an also-ran

  • We walked through the setup and configuration of the two more popular applications

Interaction can be central to a Moodle course. Therefore, a provision for synchronous and asynchronous chat, audio, and video has been kept to enhance the student experience.