Time for action - installing Alfresco on your test site
by Jason Cole, Jeanne Cole, Gavin Henrick
Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide
- Moodle 2.0 for Business
- Moodle 2.0 for Business
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started with Moodle
- Why Moodle?
- Why open source?
- Installing Moodle for experimentation
- Time for action - download and run the Moodle installer
- Creating a course
- Time for action - creating your first course
- Basic Moodle tools
- Time for action - adding a resource
- Creating a forum
- Time for action - creating your first forum
- An eLearning framework for implementing Moodle
- Case Study—OpenText
- What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?
- What was the solution and how did they arrive at the solution?
- Why did they choose Moodle?
- Was the project a success?
- What were the benefits gained?
- What lessons were learned?
- Do you have any advice for future businesses who plan to implement Moodle?
- Any other thoughts or comments?
- Summary
- 2. Moodle in Hiring and Interviewing
- Creating an assignment for submitting resumes/CVs
- Time for action - creating the assignment
- Enabling user account creation
- Time for action - how to enable self registration
- Assessing submitted resumes/CVs
- Time for action - screening the resumes/CVs
- Creating competency tests with the Moodle quiz module
- Time for action - enabling conditional activities
- Time for action - creating a quiz
- Time for action - adding questions to the quiz
- Time for action - creating a Question Bank
- Time for action - grading competency test responses
- Creating a choice module to schedule interviews
- Time for action - creating a choice module
- Creating resources and forums for the decision makers
- Time for action - creating resources and forums for the decision makers
- Time for action - creating question and answer forums
- Case Study—A&L Goodbody
- Summary
- 3. Rollout Products and Services with Moodle
- Some points to keep in mind
- Setting up a course for a new product
- Time for action - creating a Scheme of Work
- Time for action - creating the course
- Time for action - editing topic summaries
- Time for action - adding labels to each topic
- Creating a glossary of terminology
- Time for action - creating a glossary
- Time for action - adding entries to the glossary
- Time for action - adding the random glossary entry block
- Time for action - adding a category
- Implementing role-playing
- Time for action - creating a chat
- Time for action - a look at chat logging
- Creating and assessing product knowledge sheets
- Time for action - creating the outline of the product knowledge sheet
- Time for action - creating the database
- Time for action - adding a field to the database
- Time for action - adding an entry to the database
- Case Study—AA Ireland
- What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?
- What was the solution and how did they arrive at the solution?
- Why did they choose Moodle?
- Was the project a success?
- What were the benefits gained?
- What lessons were learned?
- What advice does AA Ireland have for businesses that plan to implement Moodle?
- Reflection
- Summary
- 4. Moodle for Managing Compliance Training
- Using the lesson module as a training tool
- Time for action - creating a lesson module
- Time for action - creating a content page
- Time for action - creating a question page
- Time for action - creating page jumps
- Time for action - testing your lesson
- Creating groups and groupings to manage employees going through training
- Time for action - creating groups in your course
- Time for action - enabling groupings in your course
- Time for action - enabling group mode
- Time for action - creating groupings
- Time for action - filtering activity access via groupings
- Time for action - adding users to groups
- Using completion tracking
- Time for action - enabling completion tracking
- Time for action - configuring completion tracking in your course
- Time for action - configuring completion tracking at the activity level
- Course completion reports
- Time for action - adding the completion status block to your course
- Case Study—Aer Lingus
- What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?
- What was the solution and how did they arrive at the solution?
- Why did they choose Moodle?
- Was the project a success?
- What were the benefits gained?
- Summary
- 5. CPD and Competency Tracking with Moodle
- Some points to keep in mind
- Enabling Outcomes in Moodle
- Time for action - enabling Outcomes
- Time for action - creating a scale
- Time for action - editing topic summaries
- Time for action - adding an Outcome to a course
- Adding an Outcome to an activity
- Time for action - adding an Outcome to an online assignment
- Grading an Outcome in an assignment
- Time for action - grading the assignment
- Time for action - viewing reports
- Case study—National Health Institute, Italy
- What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?
- What was the solution and how did they arrive at the solution?
- Why did they choose Moodle?
- Was the project a success?
- What were the benefits gained?
- What lessons were learned
- What advice does National Health Institute, Italy, have for businesses that plan to implement Moodle?
- Some thoughts
- Case study—Gulf Agency Company
- Summary
- 6. Communities of Practice in Moodle
- Creating a wiki for your community
- Time for action - adding a wiki to the community site
- Time for action: Revert a wiki page
- Creating a collaborative glossary
- Time for action - creating a glossary
- Time for action - creating the basic database shell
- Time for action - Creating the database fields
- Time for action - edit the display template for a database
- Creating community moderators
- Time for action - creating the moderator role
- Time for action - Assigning the role to a user in a forum
- Editing privileges for an existing role
- Time for action - editing the privileges in a forum
- Time for action - checking the users permissions
- Using RSS feeds to improve communication
- Time for action - Enabling RSS
- Time for action - Enabling RSS in a forum
- Time for action - creating an RSS feed block
- Case Study—Adapt
- What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?
- What was the solution and how did they arrive at the solution?
- Why did they choose Moodle?
- Was the project a success?
- What were the benefits gained?
- What were the lessons learned?
- Do you have any advice for future businesses that plan to implement Moodle?
- Summary
- 7. Web Conferencing with Moodle
- Some points to keep in mind
- Background on web conferencing
- Technology and web conferencing
- Time for reflection
- Using Adobe Connect Pro with Moodle
- Time for action - find and install the module
- Time for action - unzipping and uploading
- Time for action - creating an activity
- Time for reflection
- Using BigBlueButton with Moodle
- Time for action - find and install the Module
- Time for action - Unzipping and uploading
- Time for action - creating a BigBlueButton activity
- Time for reflection
- Case study—Remote-Learner
- What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle and Web Conferencing was chosen as the solution?
- What was the solution and how did they arrive at the solution?
- Why did they choose Moodle with these web conferencing platforms?
- Was the project a success?
- What were the benefits gained?
- What lessons were learned?
- What advice does Remote-Learner have for businesses that plan to implement Web Conferencing with Moodle?
- Some thoughts
- Reflection
- Summary
- 8. Integrating Moodle with Other Systems
- Managing content in repositories
- Time for action - installing Alfresco on your test site
- Time for action - add a repository plugin to Moodle
- Time for action - adding content to Alfresco
- Time for action - adding content from Alfresco to Moodle
- Time for action - creating a content conversion space
- Time for action - adding a content rule to a space
- Time for action - testing your new rule
- Time for action - configuring the Google Docs plugin
- Time for action - adding a Google Doc to your Moodle course
- Time for reflection
- Exporting content to e-portfolios
- Time for action - installing Mahara
- Time for action - configuring the networking and SSO
- Time for action - enabling Mahara portfolio plugin
- Time for action - enabling Mahara to listen to Moodle
- Time for action - creating a Mahara portfolio
- Time for action - setting up the Google Docs portfolio plugin
- Time for action - exporting from a forum to Google Docs
- Case study
- Summary
- 9. Integrating Moodle into Enterprise
- Authentication plugins available in Moodle
- Time for action - enabling the LDAP plugin
- Time for action - enabling the external database plugin
- Time for reflection
- Enrollment plugins available in Moodle 2.0
- Time for action - automating enrollment with flat file
- Time for action - creating an enrollment flat file
- Time for action - editing flat file enrollment plugin settings
- Time for action - automating enrollment with external database plugin
- Time for reflection
- Customizing the look of your Moodle site
- Time for action - applying standard themes
- Time for action - customizing themes with theme customization forms
- Time for action - changing the site header
- Time for action - editing language strings
- Case study—Raiffeisen International Fund Advisory
- What was the business problem(s) for which Moodle was chosen as the solution?
- What was the solution and how did they arrive at the solution?
- Why did they choose Moodle?
- Was the project a success?
- What were the benefits gained?
- What were the lessons learned?
- Do you have any advice for future businesses which plan to implement Moodle?
- Do you have any other thoughts or comments on Moodle?
- Summary
- A. Case study credits
To get us started, we'll install Alfresco on our test system to experiment with the integration. Alfresco runs on a different architecture than Moodle. Alfresco requires a Java application server instead of PHP. Fortunately, there are installers available on the Alfresco site that include everything we will need to develop a test system on your local computer.
To install Alfresco, run through the following steps:
- Open your browser and go to http://www.alfresco.com. Go to the Downloads tab and select the Download Now button for Alfresco Document Management in the Community Edition column.
- Select the installer for your operating system and download it to your computer.
- Double-click on the installer (it may take a moment to get started).
- Select your language for the installer.
- Choose the database option you want to use. Use the included database, unless you have a good reason not to.
- When prompted, enter a database password. Be sure to write it down somewhere.
- The next screen will prompt you for an Alfresco admin password. Definitely write this down.
- The final screen will prompt you to choose the packages you want to install. Choose the defaults and click on Next. For the examples below, you will need to make sure that you have the OpenOffice component installed.
- The installer will begin to run. This will probably take a while, so it may be time to go and get a cup of tea.
- Once the installer is complete, select Launch. This will take a while as well, so a second cup of tea might be in order.
- Once Alfresco has launched, you can configure the interface with Moodle.
You now have a full-functioning open source enterprise content management system installed on your personal computer. Alfresco has a lot of power for manipulating and sharing documents, but we will only focus on a few features for now. There are a lot of books available to help you learn how to use the more advanced features in Alfresco (a few of them from this publisher as well).
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