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Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide

by Gavin Henrick (Author), Jeanne Cole (Author), Jason Cole (Author)

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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. 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.

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1849514208
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978-1849514200
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Packt Publishing
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May 3, 2011
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English
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7.5 x 0.73 x 9.25 inches
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This book discusses the enterprise itself and enterprise solutions. The text covers ways to integrate Moodle with other systems --elearnqueen.blogspot.com/2011/05/moodle-20-for-business-review.html :- Susan Smith Nash

If you are thinking of using Moodle in a commercial enterprise, then this is an extremely valuable book --http://www.moodleblog.net/?p=552 - Mary Cooch

About the Author

Gavin Henrick

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. 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.

Jeanne Cole

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.

Jason Cole

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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Packt Publishing (May 3, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 324 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849514208
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849514200
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.73 x 9.25 inches

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Ferdinand Feth

Great Guide for Business users

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2013

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From the very beginning of the book it was apparent that this book was exactly what I was looking for. We are working on setting up a Moodle server for internal as well as external training for employees, vendors and end users of our products. We also want to utilize it for document collaboration and sign off. All of this and more is directly addressed in this book. Uses for Moodle that are outside of the moire common educational deployment are addressed in a direct, clearly written and useful manner. The largest struggle I encountered was that I tried to apply the lessons in the book without knowing what version of Moodle we were running. Once I determined that we were running an older version and had it upgraded, everything applied from the book flawlessly. A must have for the Moodle novice deploying Moodle in a business environment.

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Papageno

Excellent book if you are looking for beyond traditional uniderectional e-Learning environment.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 4, 2012

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I give this book five star because its unique view of Moodle application for non traditional e-Learning. My own challenge to create "Open Collaborative Bi-directional e-Learning environment for Working people" has several unique challenges. Section 6 of this book (Communities of Practice in Moodle) gives me many hint to my headaches. For example how to embed Wiki style co-creation place and link it to Forum. Certainly if you are looking for books to build traditional mostly uni-directional e-Learning system, you may find much better books. But as I mentioned if you are interested in somehow uncommon use of Moodle, this book is MUST have one.

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mama

Couldn't Complete Chapter 1

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2011

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Although I was extremely enthusiastic about learning Moodle from this textbook, and I have a highly satisfactory grasp of the English language, I failed to be able to complete the instructions provided in chapter 1. The text welcomes email questions/concerns, therefore I sent a message explaining my situation. I received a prompt reply from the mediator, who apparently forward my concern to the editors of the book. It has been over a month, and no one has followed up with my situation. I am still in the dark, and have decided to do an online training course to learn Moodle instead.

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McAllister Park

It has a few tricks but this short book falls ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 9, 2015

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It has a few tricks but this short book falls short of providing more detailed information on business applications.

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Mary Cooch

A valuable asset if you want to use Moodle in a commercial enterprise

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 28, 2011

Moodle 2.o for Business is part of the Packt Moodle series and is co-written by Jason and Jeanne Cole and Gavin Henrick. It's refreshingly different from the other Moodle books in that its focus is not on students in an educational institution learning, say geography; rather; it concentrates on another major global use of Moodle - commercial enterprise. It shows how a company, whatever size, can benefit from Moodle's features to improve its recruitment, training, staff development and internal communication processes. Written as a "Beginner's guide"; its language is accessible and, despite being collaboratively authored, it reads smoothly in a consistent style. (Hands up -I was one of the three technical reviewers of the book.)

Chapter 1 starts us off by suggesting ways to download Moodle to experiment/play with it before using it "in anger" - as the modern saying goes! We learn the very basics of course administration, adding resources and a discussion space. I particularly liked the "E-learning framework for implementing Moodle" section where we consider ADIME (Align/Develop/Implement/Measure/Evaluate) and also the case study at the end of the chapter. The inclusion of real-life case studies is an inspired Plus to this book, I believe, setting in a genuine context the features explored in the chapters and sharing Moodle experiences from the world of business.

Chapter 2 explains how potential employees can create new accounts (safely!) on your Moodle site and how the assignment module can be used to allow them to send in their CVs. Employers can use the assignment grading facility to rate the applications; the quiz module can serve as a means of administering competency tests and the choice module can help schedule interviews. This whole chapter appealed to my mindset because I love tweaking/adapting/manipulating Moodle to do what you need it to do, and here were whole scenarios I hadn't considered before.

Chapter 3 handles the need to provide product knowledge both internally and externally. (Incidentally, an added bonus for me reading this book was that not only did it give me some ideas about using Moodle for business, it actually also taught me about business!) We looked at different course formats, created a glossary f0r specific terminology, a chat session for role-playing and a database for peer reviewing created product knowledge sheets. Another case study at the end of the chapter gives, in this instance, AA Ireland the opportunity to pass on advice for businesses planning to implement Moodle.

Chapter 4 can be downloaded as a freebie taster! Its focus is how to use Moodle to deliver in-house staff training such as legal compliance or health and safety to selected groups of employees. Here, the authors take us through the Lesson module and explain how to put groups and groupings to good effect. Completion tracking, whereby employees can track their progress is also explained in this chapter, leading usefully on to the (new to Moodle 2.0) concept of course completion.

Chapter 5 is a very thorough explanation of the use of outcomes in Moodle - a feature I sometimes think is underused (but maybe that's just me?) Outcomes can help with competency tracking and the reader is shown how to add an outcome to an assignment and grade it. I actually learned something myself too - how to import outcomes via CSV- how cool is that?!

Chapter 6 discusses how to make the most of Moodle's features to support informal communities of practice. So we are talking forums, wikis and collaborative glossaries and databases. The reader also gets to learn about how enabling RSS feeds can improve communication

Chapter 7 is about web conferencing. Moodle doesn't have a built-in web conferencing tool so the authors discuss the various alternatives that can plug in to Moodle - one of them being Adobe Connect Pro (which I assume you have to pay for) and the other being Big Blue Button (which is free) I have experience of both of these and they are both very valuable additions to an online training program. Once more, at the end of the chapter, we have an informative case study - this time from Moodle Partner Remote Learner (for whom the authors work)

Chapter 8 concentrates on repositories and portfolios -ie, how, in Moodle 2.0, you can bring in content from external sources such as Google Docs or Alfresco and you can "push it out" to external sources such as Mahara. As I increasingly use Mahara myself, I can see it as an essential add- on to a commercial Moodle site - indeed, maybe the authors should consider writing Mahara for Business next?

Chapter 9 is about enrolment plugins (how best to get your users onto your Moodle, allowing them to keep their existing corporate usernames and passwords. It also touches on themes as having an attractive corporate image on your Moodle site is essential - themes in Moodle 2.0 are much enhanced and easily customisable. Finally, and just as important, we learn how to change the words on Moodle. By default, Moodle uses terms such as "teacher", "student" and "course" as its origins are based in the educational environment - but it is a simple move to alter these to language more suited to your own organisation.

In summary -if you are thinking of using Moodle in a commercial enteprise, then this is an extremely valuable book :) On a personal level, I enjoyed it because it shows Moodle being used differently from the norm I am familiar with, so it was an inspiring read :)

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Ms kimmie

On Time for New E-Businesses

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2011

Moodle 2.0 for Business is a great instructional how to guide for setting up a learning platform of your own making, but also as a means of setting up your business from hiring, evaluation and continuing education. I found the use of acronyms a problem because as a new user, as I am unfamiliar with some of the terms. I found the screen shots helpful, they were written in simple language with detailed descriptions, but the typeface in the screen shots were too small and light (p.113). Some screen shots did not show the full screen (p.87). Instructions are concrete and easy to follow. While reading the Chapters no where does it say what you do if you make a mistake and what a mistake may look like. Statements like "what just happened" presumes what you have done is correct, it would be nice to see errors screen shots in the text. In this way, you will be able to make sure you are following the instructions as outlined. I enjoyed the discussions related to why companies chose to use Moodle, their company expectations, and specific sections of interest. It was helpful to find additional references resources outside of the text to support the product. The notes bar was very helpful as it provides support to the user and reduces feelings of being overwhelmed with information. To summarize, Moodle 2.0 for Business A Beginners Guide demonstrates the how to's for most of Moodle functionality. Case studies show the value of the product and provides a framework for managing new businesses from pre-launch to actual product implementation. I would recommend it to anyone who is seeking to integrate technology into their business or academic enterprises

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