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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

Chapter 2. Moodle in Hiring and Interviewing

In the previous chapter we introduced a framework for thinking about how to implement Moodle in your organization. We also created a Moodle site, a course, and a forum in Moodle. In this chapter, we will build on these skills and teach you some new ones, while investigating ways to use Moodle to support the hiring process.

One of the key strategies necessary for a successful business is recruiting and retaining good employees. Moodle can be used as an effective tool in implementing these processes. This chapter will teach you how to use Moodle to facilitate the hiring processes. We will look at how to receive resumes and applications from candidates and evaluate them. We will also learn how to administer competency tests, schedule interviews, and collect reactions from multiple interviewers during the selection process.

In this chapter we shall:

  • Learn how to set up a Moodle site to facilitate the hiring and interviewing process

  • Learn how to create...