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Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace

By : Alex Büchner
Book Image

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)

Automating Workplace processes

The dynamic rules feature is one of the key differentiators between Moodle Workplace and standard Moodle. Its flexibility and versatility allow the automation of numerous processes within your LMS. The limit to what types of processes you wish to implement is only restricted by your creativity. Oh, and the current set of available conditions and actions, of course.

In this section, we will first outline a number of representative workflows that might be of use to you. We will then conclude the chapter with some tips on dynamic rules, which also includes performance considerations.

Sample Workplace workflows

You probably have a few ideas already about which workflows you wish to optimize. In this section, we have selected three processes that make use of dynamic rules. The sample workflows that are outlined here are the following:

  • Promoting new courses
  • Keeping your user base current
  • Subscription-based courses

We deliberately...