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Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By : Alex Büchner
Book Image

Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By: Alex Büchner

Overview of this book

Moodle Workplace is a comprehensive extension to Standard Moodle, the world's most used learning management system (LMS) platform, empowering millions of learners worldwide. Moodle Workplace is suitable for businesses and organizations, from small enterprises to global corporations. Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace is a comprehensive introduction to this latest product from Moodle, which facilitates collaborative learning in enterprises and larger teams. Complete with detailed descriptions, a variety of diagrams, and real working examples, this easy-to-follow guide will teach you everything you need to know to manage a Moodle Workplace system. You’ll learn how to manage your users along reporting lines and organize them in to tenants, organizations, positions, job assignments, and teams, before setting up typical HR processes such as induction, compliance, and reporting. Filled with real-world examples, the book covers blended and offline scenarios, including appointments and the Moodle Workplace mobile app. By the end of this Moodle book, you’ll have learned how to fully manage a Moodle Workplace instance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Chapter 10: Mobile Learning

In most organizations, mobile learning is becoming the norm for e-learning and forms a crucial part of the learning and development strategy. Mobile learning gives your team more flexibility whenever and wherever learning takes place; it offers self-directed and independent learning, supports on-the-job training, boosts micro-learning, and engages with the millennials in your team. Mobiles are typically used for consumption and communication, rather than authoring and administration.

Moodle has released an app for iOS and Android that allows users to interact with a Moodle Workplace system. The app is best suited for learners and supports key functionality for participants to access course content, receive notifications, upload data, monitor progress, and interact with other users. The Workplace app is an alternative to accessing Moodle via a web browser on a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) and has the advantage of being specifically designed for...