Hello,
I work for a non-profit that has been using Moodle as it training module for almost a year and I'm wondering if there is an interest for a more business/corporate focused version?
I have done a large amount of customizing of Moodle to get it to work the way we would like it to for our organization. I like the open source ideals and would like to share ideas and work that we've done with the rest of the Moodle community. Rather then just giving out our pages and some general overview, I would like to be part of a group that builds these ideas and functions into Moodle.
I was thinking about having some kind of option when installing Moodle that asks if the user would like the academic or business version. I've never built a software package before so please tell me if this is craziness.
I'd love some feedback on this.
Hi Justin,
first:
did you see the course room Moodlefor buisness use: http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=32 ?
This is a good place to discuss ideas about customizing and features.
second:
What do you think is the difference between an academic and a corporate Moodle system. I work a lot with corporate clients and see that they haven't all the same concepts. Do you really think it is possible to define the coporate expectations and create a complete own modell of configuration?
ralf
first:
did you see the course room Moodlefor buisness use: http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=32 ?
This is a good place to discuss ideas about customizing and features.
second:
What do you think is the difference between an academic and a corporate Moodle system. I work a lot with corporate clients and see that they haven't all the same concepts. Do you really think it is possible to define the coporate expectations and create a complete own modell of configuration?
ralf
Hi Ralf,
Thanks for the link. I had not found that area.
The differences might be more numerous for where I work (non-profit mental health service provider) than for corporations. We have many trainings that must be taken annually and instructed by each instructed by different people. Also users (staff, supervisors, HR, instructors) need to be able to access the appropriate training reports easily. These reports must include all trainings done over the course of the staff member’s employment. Staff also needs to be notified when there is a training that they are required to take.
Plus there are trainings that staff are sent away to take that need to be somehow recorded. Easiest way for this right now is just to create a course for each outside training, but thought there might be a better way.
There are more but *sigh* that’s enough for now.
I didn’t know the capabilities of add-ons but from what I’m reading now it looks like it might be the better way to go.
A separate "version" is not a good idea, but I do have a desire to add some sort of "profiles" to Moodle (eg sets of configuration variables and even basic content for various needs to be applied during installation).
eg
small corporate
large corporate
primary school
secondary school
college
university
etc
These would be basically just one XML file, so anyone could create one of those profiles for distribution.
Some more info here: MDL-12230
If you want to work on this you're most welcome!
eg
small corporate
large corporate
primary school
secondary school
college
university
etc
These would be basically just one XML file, so anyone could create one of those profiles for distribution.
Some more info here: MDL-12230
If you want to work on this you're most welcome!
Hi Justin,
we've been discussing this quite a bit with MD and others. @ Catalyst we are working a lot in the business/corporate space, which has led to a lot of good work in core (scalability/performance, auth/ldap, ntlm, auth/database, enrol/ldap, enrol/database, bugfixing all around).
Now we are working on several new activity modules that target corporate training and HR needs. Jonathan Newman & Peter Bulmer are the guys on that front - they did a great presentation in the last NZ Moot that should appear soon at http://www.catalyst.net.nz/moodlemoots .
The plan is to develop the business/corporate in new modules and plugins, publish them in /contrib, make them useful to academia as well if possible -- see the Face 2 Face module in contrib http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=995 for an example.
Over time some of those plugins will "land" in the main moodle distribution, and perhaps be settable with the profiles that MD describes...
we've been discussing this quite a bit with MD and others. @ Catalyst we are working a lot in the business/corporate space, which has led to a lot of good work in core (scalability/performance, auth/ldap, ntlm, auth/database, enrol/ldap, enrol/database, bugfixing all around).
Now we are working on several new activity modules that target corporate training and HR needs. Jonathan Newman & Peter Bulmer are the guys on that front - they did a great presentation in the last NZ Moot that should appear soon at http://www.catalyst.net.nz/moodlemoots .
The plan is to develop the business/corporate in new modules and plugins, publish them in /contrib, make them useful to academia as well if possible -- see the Face 2 Face module in contrib http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=995 for an example.
Over time some of those plugins will "land" in the main moodle distribution, and perhaps be settable with the profiles that MD describes...