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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 - creating an RSS feed block


  1. From the course home page, turn on editing mode.

  2. Find the Add a block menu (at the bottom of the right column by default). Select Remote RSS feeds from the drop-down list.

  3. The new block should now appear just above the Add a block menu. By default, it is named Remote News Feed.

  4. Select the editing icon in the new Remote News Feed block.

  5. On the Configuring a Remote News Feed block page, you need to configure a few options. Let's start by adding the feed to the Moodle news feeds library. Below the Choose the feeds menu, select the Add/Edit Feeds link.

  6. The next screen will enable you to add a new feed to the feed library. Click the Add a new feed.

  7. The Add a new feed page allows you to add a new news feed to the site. Find the feed URL of the news source that you want to add to the site. For the Discovery News site, I went to http//www.news.discovery.com and found the link for the RSS feed. Copy the URL into the Feed URL text box.

  8. Each RSS feed supplies its...