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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 – enabling the external database plugin


Moodle's database authentication plugin allows Moodle to use a table in an external database to check a user's name and password. The external table enables you to use the usernames and passwords in an application like Peoplesoft or a portal system like Drupal. The plugin is relatively simple, but very flexible. All you need is a database table with your usernames, passwords and any profile fields you want to import into Moodle. Give Moodle access to the table (it can be read-only access to ensure the table can only be changed by your external authority) and your users can use their passwords from your other application to log in to Moodle.

To set up Moodle's database authentication plugin:

  1. Login to your Moodle as an administrator.

  2. From the Site administration menu, select Plugins. Then select Authentication.

  3. You will now be on the Manage authentication page. You will see a list of available authentication plugins. To enable the Database...