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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 – editing language strings


One of the greatest complaints that corporations have regarding Moodle, is its school centric language. With a little bit of effort, you can change Moodle from a school centric LMS to a corporate LMS.

Moodle provides administrators with the ability to customize the text Moodle displays as part of its interface. Everything Moodle displays to the user is either entered by a user or stored as a part of a language pack. This system makes it easier for translators to translate Moodle into different languages, and it also makes it easy to customize the terms Moodle uses to describe courses, activities, resources, and settings. For example, if you want to change the word from 'course' to 'community' throughout the website, you can use the language pack to change it.

Moodle provides an interface to search for labels and change them. To change a language string, have a look at the following steps:

  1. Log in to Moodle as an administrator.

  2. In the Site administration...