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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we briefly introduced the concepts of Moodle courses, users, and roles. We also saw how central they are to Moodle Workplace and how they are inherently intertwined. Any one of these concepts simply cannot exist without the other two, and this is something you should bear in mind throughout.

Just to recap, the three key takeaways from this chapter are as follows:

  • Courses comprise activities and resources, and this is where your employees' learning takes place. Courses are organized hierarchically in categories.
  • Users are represented by an account; access is granted to the system by authentication and to courses by enrollment. Users can be clustered into cohorts, which usually spawn across courses and groups, which are limited to courses.
  • Roles grant permissions for certain features to certain users in certain contexts, such as courses.

If you haven't fully understood any of the three areas, don't worry. The intention...