- 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
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Company |
Gulf Agency Company |
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Contact |
Damien O’Donoghue |
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Website | |
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Moodle Partner |
Human Resource Development International |
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Contact |
Stuart Mealor, |
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Website |
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