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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 certifications

Before we get started, let's deal with the basic concept of certifications. A certification comprises a single program or recurring programs, both of which expire after a certain amount of time. The renewal of the initial certification, known as recertification, either uses the same program or another program:

Figure 6.22 – Certifications structure

There are some program properties and actions that have been re-purposed to facilitate certifications, while others have been added:

  • Expiry date: The time when a program's validity ends
  • Program reset: Makes use of the reset function to facilitate recertification
  • Due date: Used for both certification and recertification

We are going to use the certification example depicted in the following timeline to demonstrate the power of Moodle Workplace's certification tool. The example covers a range of typical cases in compliance workflows and demonstrates...