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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 badges

Badges are a good way of celebrating achievement and showing learning progress. Moodle supports the management of badges, as well as different ways to award badges. Both mechanisms will be dealt with in this section. Moodle badges are fully compatible with Open Badges and can be published in any Open Badges-compatible backpack.

Badges are awarded based on a variety of chosen criteria and will be displayed on a user's profile. The main components and issuing mechanisms of badges are depicted in the following diagram:

Figure 7.35 – Moodle badges

A badge has certain properties, such as a name, expiry date, and issuer. Additionally, badges have one or many criteria that have to be fulfilled to trigger it being awarded. Some criteria only exist at the course level, while others exist at the site level. The awarding process itself is usually automatic, with the exception of manual assignment. Alternatively, badges can be awarded via...