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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 9. Integrating Moodle into Enterprise

We've covered a lot of different ways to use Moodle in your business, but to make the move to Moodle a success you need to integrate Moodle with your other business systems. Enabling users to use their existing corporate usernames and passwords will make it easier for them to use your Moodle solution. Automating enrollment will reduce your maintenance overhead and enable you to focus on the development of your learning solution. You will also want Moodle to have a similar look and feel to your other corporate systems. The more familiar and easy to use, the more likely it is that users will adopt the system. In this final chapter, we will cover enrollment and authentication plugins and how to customize a theme for your corporate Moodle site.

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Learn about the authentication plugins available in Moodle 2.0

  • Take two of the authentication plugins and provide detailed examples of how to implement them

  • Learn about the standard...