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Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By : Büchner
Book Image

Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By: 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)

Managing teams

You might recall the Teams tab on the dashboard, which we mentioned in the overview chapter. Now that we have dealt with departments, positions, and job assignments, we can look at the different facets of how Moodle Workplace handles teams.

In this section, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Managerial rights and responsibilities
  • Teams versus cohorts
  • Modeling different types of organizations

Managerial rights and responsibilities

With great power comes great responsibility. As we have already seen in the Job assignments section, users with managerial positions can do the following:

  • Allocate team members to programs and certifications.
  • View custom reports on team members (according to configured report audience settings).
  • Receive notifications about completions and activities that are overdue.

Having a manager position further means that the team list is displayed on the dashboard. The Teams tab displays information...