Many people will recognize Moodle as a Virtual Learning Environment that can be used in schools to teach lessons and organize student information. Fewer people will realize that Moodle can be used in businesses to dispense training, share important documents, and encourage teamwork.
Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide will show you how to set up Moodle in your corporation. By introducing a system within your company that will allow for a centralized, accessible repository of knowledge, staff training will become a lot more streamlined, and the retention of skills will improve, leading to huge productivity benefits.
An easy-to-access, user-friendly system is crucial to keep communication flowing in any successful business. By putting your H.R. documents, newsletters, discussions, and training documents all in one place, which is accessible from the office or from home, you are giving your employees all the information that they need to be productive and become integrated members of your company. This book will show you how to get your important business documents online, as well as the recruitment and training processes. You will learn how to move any existing processes to Moodle, as well as set up new ones that will have you wondering what you did before Moodle came along!
Use lesson modules to create training for sales and end users
Set up forums to create product and service user communities
Upload a feedback form for internal collaboration and decision making
Make employee inductions interactive and track their training with SCORM modules
Create a company intranet to promote peer-to-peer based collaboration
Make it easier for your employees to work from home with web conferencing
Extend Moodle with open source tools such as Mahara, Jasper Reports, and Alfresco
Theme your site with a color scheme, company logo, and language packs
Move your existing documents and processes to Moodle and integrate your back-office data with the enrollment and authentication plugins