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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)

Exploring competencies

Competencies describe the learner's proficiency or level of understanding in certain subject-related skills. Moodle has a powerful competency management system that fully supports modeling and awarding competencies. In this section, we will cover the basics of competency management. The main components and issuing mechanisms of competencies have been depicted in the following diagram:

Figure 7.28 – Moodle competencies

A competency has certain properties, such as a name, scale (for instance, not competent, competent with supervision, and competent), a competency framework it belongs to, and a parent to model competency hierarchies. A competency is usually tied to course and/or activity completions. Competencies can be part of a Learning Plan (template) so that they can be assigned to users or cohorts. Moodle supports different awarding mechanisms, namely Automatic upon completion, following a review process after providing...