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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)

Exploring Moodle courses

Courses are central to Moodle as this is where content is presented to learners and where the vast majority of learning and collaboration takes place.

Resources and activities

Moodle stores resources and manages activities in courses:

  • Resources are learning elements where the learner is passive; for instance, a PDF document can be read, a URL can be navigated to, a podcast can be listened to, or a video can be watched.
  • Activities are learning elements where the learner is active and more engaged; for example, posting to a discussion forum, responding to a feedback questionnaire, attending a face-to-face appointment, collaborating with others in the authoring of an FAQ, or answering questions in a SCORM-based quiz.

    Important Note

    You already saw the list of Moodle Workplace's default activities in the Course navigation sub-section in Chapter 2, Working with Moodle Workplace.

Resources and activities can be arranged in any order and...