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Overview of Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide The first book that shows how to use Moodle in a corporate environment Practical examples allow you to set up Moodle in your business with ease Well-known companies that have implemented Moodle for staff training share their experiences in the form of case studies Use Moodle for recruitment, training, group activities, and much more 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! A beginner's guide that shows you how to share documents, create group activities, dispense online training, and much more, all by setting up Moodle in your business What you will learn from this book : 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 Approach Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, each chapter looks at a different aspect of using Moodle in a business environment, and steadily guides the reader through setting Moodle up in their own business with the help of practical examples, accompanied by lots of screenshots. Each chapter also includes case studies from well-known companies that have already implemented Moodle. Who this book is written for If you are responsible for training, recruitment, or maintaining any guidelines within your company, then this book is for you. No previous experience with Moodle is necessary as the examples are easy to follow. About the Authors Jason Cole, Ph.D is the Chief Operating Officer for Remote-Learner, US, an official Moodle partner providing hosting, support and instructional design services. Jason oversees Remote-Learner’s daily operations, providing technical services to over 1,100 clients, from small non-profit organizations to Fortune 500 companies. Jason started using Moodle at San Francisco State University in 2003 when he led the transition from Blackboard to Moodle. Later, he led the implementation of Moodle at the Open University in the UK, currently one of the top three largest Moodle deployments in the world. Over the ensuing 2 years he successfully architected a system that currently supports over 225,000 student users with multiple enrollments. Jason is the co-author of Using Moodle (c2006 & 2007) published by O'Reilly Community Press, and has been the organizer of several successful Moodle Conferences in the US and UK. Jeanne Cole is a Senior Project Manager for Remote-Learner US. She is an experienced Moodle course developer and project manager who has migrated hundreds of courses from other learning management systems to Moodle, as well as created courses from client materials. She also has experience managing projects applying multiple open source products to meet a wide variety of client needs. Prior to her Moodle career, Jeanne worked as a project engineer / manager for contractors in the US and UK. Gavin Henrick has worked with technology in business, learning and development for over 10 years. He has been consulting on using Moodle, Mahara and other open-source applications for the last 4 years. He has run several websites and runs his own blog (www.somerandomthoughts.com). He is a regular speaker at a number of Moodlemoots and conferences on the use of Moodle in the corporate space focusing on practical examples of usage. Gavin recently joined the the Moodle Partner Remote-Learner and is based out of Canada working with a range of organisations in Canada and Europe. Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1: Getting Started with Moodle Chapter 2: Moodle in Hiring and Interviewing Chapter 3: Rollout Products and Services with Moodle Chapter 4: Moodle for Managing Compliance Training Chapter 5: CPD and Competency Tracking with Moodle Chapter 6: Communities of Practice in Moodle Chapter 7: Web Conferencing with Moodle Chapter 8: Integrating Moodle with Other Systems Chapter 9: Integrating Moodle into Enterprise Appendix: Case study credits Index