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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)

Chapter 4: Tenants, Organizations, and Teams

Tenants, organizations, and teams are three notable features of Moodle Workplace and are the first of many key differences from Moodle core. This chapter is all about setting up and managing the structure of your user-related data.

Tenants are entirely isolated entities with their own look and feel, structure, users, and learning entities. They are critical for when you wish to represent multiple self-contained business entities in your enterprise. You will learn about the fundamentals of tenants and how to manage them in Moodle Workplace.

Each tenant is modeled using organizations with multiple hierarchical department and position frameworks. Departments and positions are vital to defining reporting lines and assigning jobs to your staff. You will gain knowledge of all the aspects of organizations, including departments, positions, and job positions.

Teams are a key feature that let managers see the learning progress of their staff...