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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 – testing your new rule


Now that you have created a rule, we should test it to make sure it is working.

  1. Open the Word to PDF space in the Alfresco Explorer.

  2. Click on the Add Content button in the upper-right area of the explorer.

  3. Browse and find a Word file you want to convert.

  4. Click on OK.

  5. You can leave all of the options on the Modify Content Properties page at their defaults and click on OK.

  6. Your Word file should now be added to the Word to PDF space. If you look in the PDF space, you should see the PDF version of the Word file.

What just happened

You have just tested your new rule for converting Word files to PDF. Moving forward, you should be able to simply add Word files to the folder and then link to the PDF version within Moodle.

Have a go hero

There are a number of conversion services available in Alfresco. You can convert a number of different Office files to a variety of formats, including PDF and HTML. You can also convert images loaded on to the system into a standard...