0%

Book Description

Discover techniques and practices to bring learning and development in line with day-to-day operations for small and large enterprises through hands-on examples

Key Features

  • Deliver effective training and professional development programs at the organizational level
  • Automate various learning processes in your organization such as onboarding, compliance, and reporting
  • Manage distance learning programs, online seminars, and assessments locally as well as globally

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Understand the Moodle Workplace business model
  • Support multiple business entities using multi-tenancy, organizations, positions, job assignments, and teams
  • Explore best practices for organizing typical HR processes such as onboarding, compliance, and reporting
  • Automate business workflows using dynamic rules and migrations
  • Support blended and offline learning via seminar management and the Workplace app
  • Incentivize skill development and learning through certificates, competencies, and badges
  • Customize Moodle Workplace to reflect an organization's corporate identity
  • Familiarize yourself with Moodle Workplace Web services

Who this book is for

This book is for workplace administrators in a technical, organizational or pedagogical capacity. Managers who lead teams in the workplace, especially HR, will also find this book useful, as will learners who use Moodle Workplace for their continuous professional development. Prior exposure to the Moodle platform will help you follow the examples more easily.

Table of Contents

  1. Corporate Learning with Moodle Workplace
  2. Why subscribe?
  3. Contributors
  4. About the author
  5. About the reviewer
  6. Packt is searching for authors like you
  7. Preface
    1. Who this book is for
    2. What this book covers
      1. Part I: Basic Concepts
      2. Part II: Data, Processes, and Workflows
      3. Part III: Technical Tools
    3. To get the most out of this book
    4. Conventions used
    5. Get in touch
    6. Reviews
  8. Chapter 1: What Is Moodle Workplace?
    1. Introducing Moodle Workplace
    2. Comparing Moodle Workplace and standard Moodle
      1. Moodle Core or standard Moodle
      2. Moodle plugins and Moodle LMS
      3. Workplace plugins
    3. Comparing Moodle Workplace and Totara Learn
      1. Features unique to Moodle Workplace
      2. Features unique to Totara Learn
      3. Features that exist differently in both products
      4. So, which is the better product?
    4. Understanding the Moodle Workplace business model
    5. Understanding Moodle Workplace versions
    6. Summary
  9. Chapter 2: Working with Moodle Workplace
    1. Knowing your Workplace stakeholders
    2. Interacting with the Workplace user interface
      1. General user elements and actions
      2. Header elements
      3. Dashboard
      4. Course navigation
    3. Getting help
    4. Summary
  10. Chapter 3: Exploring Moodle Courses, Users, and Roles
    1. Getting started with a high-level overview
    2. Exploring Moodle courses
      1. Resources and activities
      2. Course categories
      3. Creating a Moodle course
    3. Exploring Moodle users
      1. Authentication and enrollment
      2. Adding a user account
      3. Enrolling users
      4. Using groups and cohorts
    4. Exploring Moodle roles
      1. Putting roles into context
      2. Defining roles
    5. Summary
  11. Chapter 4: Tenants, Organizations, and Teams
    1. Managing tenants
      1. Understanding tenant basics
      2. Tenant settings
      3. Adding new tenants
      4. Configuring tenants
      5. Archiving and deleting tenants
      6. Limiting the number of tenants
      7. Allocating users to tenants in batch mode
      8. Sharing content across tenants
    2. Managing organizations
      1. Departments and department frameworks
      2. Positions and position frameworks
      3. Job assignments
    3. Managing teams
      1. Managerial rights and responsibilities
      2. Teams versus cohorts
      3. Modeling different types of organizations
    4. Summary
  12. Chapter 5: Automation and Dynamic Rules
    1. Managing dynamic rules
      1. Adding a rule header
      2. Exploring dynamic rule conditions
      3. Exploring dynamic rule actions
      4. Rule enablement and processing
      5. Rule reporting
      6. Rule archiving and deletion
      7. Limiting the number of rules
    2. Automating Workplace processes
      1. Sample Workplace workflows
      2. Dynamic rules tips
    3. Summary
  13. Chapter 6: Onboarding and Compliance
    1. Managing programs
      1. Program details
      2. Program content
      3. Program schedule
      4. Program users
      5. Program dynamic rules
      6. Program progress reporting
      7. Sharing content across tenants
    2. Managing certifications
      1. Specifying certification details
      2. Configuring recertification
      3. Managing certification users
      4. Certification dynamic rules
      5. Modeling onboarding and compliance workflows
    3. Summary
  14. Chapter 7: Skills and Incentives
    1. Introducing Moodle skills and incentives
    2. Exploring the certificates tool
      1. Managing certificates
      2. Certificate designer
    3. Exploring competencies
      1. Managing competencies
      2. Awarding competencies
    4. Exploring badges
      1. Managing badges
      2. Awarding badges
    5. Summary
  15. Chapter 8: Generating Custom Reports
    1. Exploring the reporting tool
    2. Selecting data and record sources
    3. Building reports
      1. Configuring fields
      2. Configuring settings
      3. Scheduling reports
      4. Granting access to reports
    4. Exploring the Workplace data store
    5. Summary
  16. Chapter 9: Seminar Management
    1. Understanding Workplace's approach to seminars
      1. Adding appointment bookings
      2. Adding appointments and sessions
      3. Managing the appointment workflow
      4. Customizing notifications
    2. Reporting on appointments
    3. Summary
  17. Chapter 10: Mobile Learning
    1. Preparing to use the Moodle Workplace app
      1. Accessing Moodle Workplace from mobile devices
      2. Installing the app
      3. Authenticating on the Moodle Workplace app
    2. Exploring the Moodle Workplace app
      1. The standard Moodle app
      2. The Moodle Workplace app features
      3. The Moodle Workplace branded app
    3. Configuring the Moodle Workplace app
      1. Mobile features
      2. Mobile notifications
    4. Summary
  18. Chapter 11: Corporate Identity
    1. Moodle design overview
    2. Branding tenants
      1. Basic appearance settings
      2. Advanced appearance settings
      3. Customizing the login screen
    3. Branding the mobile app
      1. Mobile appearance
      2. Branded Moodle Workplace app
      3. App banners
    4. Summary
  19. Chapter 12: Migrations
    1. Understanding Migration
    2. Working with Migration
      1. Exporting data
      2. Importing data
      3. Migrating via the Command-Line Interface
    3. Synchronizing HR data
      1. Provisioning your users
      2. Putting together your user provisioning workflow
    4. Summary
  20. Appendix A – Moodle Workplace Web Services
    1. Moodle web services overview
      1. Introduction to Moodle web services
      2. Configuring Moodle web services
    2. Moodle Workplace migration versus web services
    3. Moodle Workplace web services functions
      1. Tenants
      2. Organizations
      3. Dynamic rules
      4. Programs
      5. Certifications
      6. Certificates
      7. Reports
      8. Appointments
      9. Migration
      10. Miscellaneous
    4. Summary
  21. Other Books You May Enjoy
    1. Leave a review - let other readers know what you think
18.117.186.92