Moodle 2.0 for Business Beginner's Guide
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Chapter 1. Getting Started with Moodle

Moodle is the world's leading open source learning management system to improve business performance. Moodle is a great tool for developing learning activities for a wide variety of audiences. But it also has the capability to be used as a community and collaboration tool to meet a wide variety of business needs.

In this first chapter, we will discuss the benefits of open source software as it applies to Moodle, explore how to install Moodle and get a basic course up and running. In further chapters, we will explore how to apply Moodle to specific business processes to enhance collaboration, communication, learning, and performance.

In this chapter, we shall:

  • Discuss Moodle in the context of its use in non-education organizations
  • Install Moodle for experimenting and learning
  • Set up a class and add some resources and a forum
  • Discuss a simple heuristic framework for managing a Moodle implementation

So let's get on with it...