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Viewer/Calendar
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Show all instructors in for the day with time slots and allocation of courses to that instructor
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Allow allocation of courses to each instructor and easy management in this in rejigging
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Allow scheduling of instructors for whole year in advance
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Allow start and finish times for instructors and outside this no bookings
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Able to view boats available for the day and book this out for courses or hire
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Allow quick scheduling of other events to assign in the day, i.e. safety cover or meetings
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Allow us to view calendars for multiple sites and quick changes into these views, at present two centres
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Allow for up to 30 columns in each viewer, easy scrolling to view when more than one page is generated
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Course list
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Able to view courses available with dates and price
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Able to change pricing of courses for special offers or late/early booking discounts, able to create a special offers list easily viewable to clients
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If a course changes in venue or timings or cancelled due to bad weather, auto email and text changes to clients booked on
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Able to create new courses and events easily
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Show course title in categories. i.e. Yacht Sailing - Competent Crew, Day Skipper etc....
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Show maximum allocation of spaces for each course. Not allow these to go over unless authorization from a Manager
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Show numbers of clients booked on the course, this should then show how many spaces available if linked to the above
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Show venue for the course, allow multiple venues. At present this is two but in future will expand
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We need to be able to click on the course to see the clients booked and important booking information on them
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Show payments owed by any clients on courses, automatic flag up of payments owed within periods limits, auto emails to clients with this and any changes
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Clients able to book courses online and pay, auto confirmation and reduction in space allocation on course
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Clients able to add a request of course date that is presently not available, allow all to view so clients can create a group of clients that are requesting a course on a certain date
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A waiting list for full courses in case of drop outs
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The contacts
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Client database, whether enquiry, member or list what courses they have booked, easy searching under name or other fields
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Able to extract information for mail out purposes to targeted clients, need to be able to sort in various ways , activity , course, date last visited etc
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Confirmation letters, need to be able to create lots of various confirmations depending on course attending, auto email on booking
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Allow notes to made on clients
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Accounting
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Till records for each day
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Invoicing for groups etc automatically generated
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Tracking of payments due
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Tracking of monthly membership payments paid by Standing order
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Petty cash
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Budgets, management of equipment and repair budgets
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Staff budgets, setting of monthly budgets and manually able to input payments made as a whole and to individual staff
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calculate the actual cost of staffing for each day , week , or period
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Staff
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Scheduling of staff with days off, times in and at what venue they are working at
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Easy exporting or viewing of this information in Day, Week, Monthly views
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Able to create holiday, sick days and unpaid days off
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Calculating of hours each staff scheduled in each week.
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Create staff names, what sport they can teach
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Staff able to access rota information from online, password access that can be changed
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Staff able to create a holiday or day off request, this then needs to be easily viewed as a list in date order
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Staff notice board to post important general info - e.g. policy change
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Levels
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Different levels of access to areas or details of areas, managers, instructors, admin, clients, members
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Bespoke courses
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Group or Corporate events creation
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Purchases
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Allow orders to be logged and categorized and linked into the budgets for each equipment type
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Alerts
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Auto alerts when a course fills emailed to course coordinator with date and course
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products
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some items sold are products not courses need to be catered for
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Data security ?
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back ups
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members
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Members log in to the centre
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tracking who is in centre at what time, doing what, and display on web site
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I have been watching this thread for the last couple of days. I am a Moodle newbie but right now I am using it to put together a training course for State Employees.
While Moodle is geared towards educational content delivery it can be used for corporate training delivery with a little work.
I use the (Book) module to assemble chapters of lecure materials that have enough meat to be used for non-instructor led review by users (Students). Then I have books with lab sessions, answers to the labs and topic with embedded YouTube videos.
I have developed over 50 training courses in Information Technology and Business Intelligence using Powerpoint over the last 20+ years. We like the social networking aspects of forums and calendars of events helps make the training more formal and campus like.
I'm trying to get the consulting group I work for to accept using LMS systems to deliver training materials to our State customers. My guess is that it takes 50% more time to develop a course but it is worth it.
My current course is "SQL as a Second Language" and I am about 1/2 complete. We plan to print the books as handouts. By separating the lecture from lab sessions and lab answers we can add value by changing the lab sessions for different State departments.
There a number of things that would make Moodle more useful for Corporate training and our goup is willing to pay a Moodle developer to help us develop these items. So far we havn't found anyone who can assist us who knows about LMS.
This course is an experiment and a training experience for me. I have found a number of tools and techniques that are helping me to keep my producitity in the same range as using Powerpoint.
Thanks for Moodle
As has been mentioned, what Moodle does is deliver e-learning, which is not what your client is looking for. In terms of other open source options, you could look at Drupal or Joomla as a CMS. I've only used Joomla - it is powerful but there's something of a learning curve, and I didn't warm to it at all. From what I've read Drupal has an even stiffer learning curve (though it is more stable for larger sites).
Magento is an open source shopping cart - though you may need the Enterprise edition, which costs, if your client wants to be able to export to their existing accounts package.
You can join Joomla with Magento to provide a "single log on" - I haven't done this, but I have joined Joomla with Moodle on a non-production site. This might be useful if your client wishes to offer elearning in future. It works reliably enough, but I know there have been some security concerns about Joomla's "Jfusion" bridge recently. You may be better off exploring Moodle 2 if you want to join Moodle with other products. (You can also join Drupal to Magento, but I haven't tried Drupal's Magento plugin).
Magento also joins with Wordpress, and there are several very good calendars for Wordpress (many people use Wordpress as a CMS rather than a blog these days). If your programmers can handle the accounts side that might be an option as Wordpress is very user friendly.
Non-open source : look at Trumba. It's not free but not 10k either, and will handle pretty much all of the calendar side. It can run on more or less any site, so you could combine it with any of the above open source options.
In short, keep Moodle in mind if your client later needs an elearning package - at the moment they don't, so it isn't at all suitable for this particular gig.
