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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)

Synchronizing HR data

In this section, we are going to put the various migration tools we covered in this chapter into practice. We are going to apply imports and exports to HR data in order to automate typical user provisioning processes.

Enterprise HR systems, whether off-the-shelf or tailor-made, store and maintain critical information about the people making enterprises run. In addition to details about staff, HR systems often also handle data about externals, such as contractors, resellers, suppliers, and other associates. Most people working in an enterprise require regular training and development, which is generally directly related to information that's maintained in the HR system.

HR systems are usually updated daily as people join the organization, change positions, get promoted, retire, leave and return, or change their address or surname, with the latter caused by the blunder commonly known as marriage. The way data is stored in an enterprise's HR system...