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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)

Managing organizations

Organization structure is a combination of three Moodle Workplace features: departments, positions, and jobs. You deploy department and position hierarchies to represent your organization structure and define reporting lines by assigning job assignments to employees in any department with any position.

Once created, a site or tenant administrator can utilize an organization structure to perform the following operations:

  • Create dynamic rules to automate specific steps based on a user's position or department; for instance, all employees who belong to the R&D department will be enrolled in the newly introduced ethics course.
  • Create custom reports that show the data of a specific department or position as their audience; that is, the same report only displays data depending on where in an organization the viewer is based.
  • Create team managers by assigning jobs with different types of positions to users, effectively creating reporting...