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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)

Introducing Moodle skills and incentives

Skills and incentives are at the heart of each human resource strategy, and since Moodle Workplace is a strategic building block of a modern learning environment, we feel that the two concepts deserve a dedicated chapter.

Important note

A skill is the ability to perform a certain action to solve a given problem. Skills are represented in Moodle as competencies.

An incentive is a motivator to acquire a skill. Incentives are represented in Moodle as grades, feedback, badges, and – new in Moodle Workplace – certificates.

Moodle's initial target audiences were educational institutions, such as schools, colleges, and universities, as well as other training and learning organizations. In addition to learning per se, assessment is a critical requirement in educational settings, and Moodle offers a wide range of tools to facilitate both formative as well as summative assessment. In fact, most assessment activities cover...