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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)

Knowing your Workplace stakeholders

In a typical Workplace learning environment, you have the following key players and their responsibilities (roles) in Moodle Workplace:

Most of the preceding stakeholders should be self-explanatory. However, there are two roles that deserve some further explanation due to their Moodle-esque idiosyncrasies: manager and trainer:

  • Manager is a role in Moodle that is distinct from the aforementioned general and department managers. Users with the manager role can access courses and modify them; they usually do not participate in these courses. Manager and department lead are extra permissions granted in positions, which are explained in detail in Chapter 4, Tenants, Organizations, and Teams.
  • Moodle distinguishes between a trainer with editing rights (content authoring) and a trainer without editing rights (content delivery). For legacy reasons, these roles are called trainer and non-editing trainer, respectively...