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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)

Chapter 2: Working with Moodle Workplace

Moodle Workplace is 100% compatible with standard Moodle, also known as Moodle Core. The focus of this book is the delta between Workplace and Core, plus a range of critical concepts that you need for setting up and managing a professional learning environment for workplace learning.

Before we get started, it is helpful to cover some essential elements that you will be using when working with Moodle Workplace and also throughout the book. You will learn about the key players in Workplace, their roles, their responsibilities, and what functions they have in your setup. Also, you will learn about the important user interface interactions, and finally, you will learn about different help sources, both built-in and external.

While Moodle Workplace is very intuitive, it is highly recommended that you familiarize yourself with the basic workings since they are used consistently throughout the book.

We will cover the following topics:

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