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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 – automating enrollment with external database plugin


A more robust method for automating enrollments is the external database enrollment plugin. The external database enrollment plugin is similar to the external database authentication plugin, which we discussed earlier in this chapter. Moodle can use a table in an external database to assign users to courses with the proper role. You or your IT department can create the table from a number of sources, including HR, portal, or e-commerce systems. The table can be relatively simple, with just a few columns with the necessary data.

Using a database table has a few advantages over using a flat file. While the flat file is easy to create, database enrollment is usually easier to manage. Adding or removing a user can be done with a simple SQL command, instead of editing a text file. The database plugin can also create new courses if the course in the enrollment table doesn't already exist in Moodle.

To configure the database plugin...