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Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By : Alex Büchner
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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)

Introducing Moodle Workplace

According to moodle.com/workplace, Moodle Workplace empowers "your team with an effective learning solution for training and development."

Moodle Workplace, or Workplace for short, is an open source LMS that has been developed by Moodle Pty Ltd. Workplace is based on standard Moodle and has extra features specially designed for corporate and organizational training, resulting in a powerful and flexible platform for workplace learning.

The main targets for Workplace are companies – from small to medium enterprises, all the way to global corporations and governments (regional and national), as well as public sector and non-governmental organizations, such as charities, foundations, and healthcare providers. However, Moodle Workplace is not limited to these entities: a university might make use of Moodle Workplace for the training and development of its employees, while using standard Moodle as their LMS for students.

The key features of Moodle Workplace are as follows:

Now that you are familiar with the key features of Moodle Workplace, let's compare it with its little brother, standard Moodle.