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Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By : Alex Büchner
Book Image

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)

Moodle design overview

We will first provide you with an overview of generic design options in Moodle environments. There are numerous ways to customize the appearance of your Moodle site so that it blends in with your company's corporate brand. These boil down to two categories:

  • Appearance configuration options: There are a plethora of settings in standard Moodle that impact the learner's user experience—for instance, items to be displayed in the user menu or content being shown on the dashboard. The majority of these settings can be found under the Appearance tab of the Site administration menu. In this chapter, we will only focus on Workplace-specific appearance configuration options.
  • Themes and related settings: Moodle themes provide a skin to completely change the look and feel of your site. The same mechanism, of course, also applies to Moodle Workplace. The main difference is that standard Moodle ships with two themes—Boost and Classic—...