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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 an enrollment flat file


So let's create our flat file to enroll the five new hires in the safety course.

  1. Open up a new spreadsheet in Excel or Open Office.

  2. Since this is a self-paced course, we are only going to create a four field flat file. The first column will be for the operation. The second column will be for the role you are assigning the user. Make sure you use the roles that are located in the Flat file mapping section of the Flat file settings. The third column will be for the user id number. The fourth column will be for the course id number. Do not include a header row in your spreadsheet. Only include the enrollment information.

  3. The two values that can be entered in the operation column are add, to add a user, or del, to delete a user. For the first five rows under the first column, enter add because we are adding five new users to the course.

  4. The roles that can be assigned with the flat file plugin are defined at the bottom of the settings page. We are...