Moodle is an open-source Learning Management System (LMS) that provides educators with the tools and features to create and manage online courses. It allows educators to organize course materials, create quizzes and assignments, host discussion forums, and track student progress. Moodle is highly flexible and can be customized to meet the specific needs of different institutions and learning environments.
Moodle supports both synchronous and asynchronous learning environments, enabling educators to host live webinars, video conferences, and chat sessions, as well as providing a variety of tools that support self-paced learning, including videos, interactive quizzes, and discussion forums. The platform also integrates with other tools and systems, such as Google Apps and plagiarism detection software, to provide a seamless learning experience.
Moodle is widely used in educational institutions, including universities, K-12 schools, and corporate training programs. It is well-suited to online and blended learning environments and distance education programs. Additionally, Moodle's accessibility features make it a popular choice for learners with disabilities, ensuring that courses are inclusive and accessible to all learners.
The Moodle community is an active group of users, developers, and educators who contribute to the platform's development and improvement. The community provides support, resources, and documentation for users, as well as a forum for sharing ideas and best practices. Moodle releases regular updates and improvements, ensuring that the platform remains up-to-date with the latest technologies and best practices.
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This unit specifies the competencies required to prepare goods for distribution. It involves receiving customer orders, retrieving customers’ orders, consolidating customer orders, packaging customer orders and handling dispatch operations.
This unit specifies the competencies required to handle organization materials. It involves verifying organization materials, organizing material handling equipment, organizing storage equipment and handling materials movement.
This unit specifies the competencies required to manage stores safety and security. It involves maintaining proper hygiene of stores, observing good housekeeping practices, preparing fire and safety emergency plan, ensuring compliance with the legal requirements and workplace safety, securing entry and exit points and ensuring proper custody of store keys and security equipment.
This unit specifies the competencies required to issue and dispatch goods. It involves receiving requisitions for stored goods, preparing to issue requested goods, identifying, and picking the goods from the stores, arranging/packaging requested goods for issue, dispatching issued goods from the store and updating store records.
This unit specifies the competencies required to preserve stored goods. It involves identifying methods of preservation, selecting the most appropriate preservation methods, implementing the preservation methods of goods, monitoring condition of stored goods and reviewing the goods preservation process/methods.
This unit specifies the competencies required to manage storage of goods. It involves maintaining stock layout, maintaining quality of goods, maintaining optimum stock levels, securing stored goods and maintaining records of stored goods.
This unit specifies the competencies required to identify and codify goods. It involves categorizing items for coding, identifying of relevant codes for goods, assigning codes on goods and stocking of coded goods.
This unit specifies the competencies required to receive delivered goods. It involves planning to receive goods, receiving delivered inbound goods, inspecting, accepting, or rejecting received goods or deliveries, processing the relevant documents, and applying workplace essential skills .
This unit specifies the competencies required to manage supply chain sustainability. It involves preparing supply chain sustainability policy, developing sustainable specifications, conducting supply chain sustainability audit, developing sustainability training needs and evaluating supply chain sustainability performance
This unit specifies the competencies required to dispose organization’s assets. It involves preparing asset disposal plan, submitting disposal recommendations, disposing organizational assets and managing disposal documents.
This unit specifies the competencies required to manage procurement contracts. It involves monitoring procurement contracts, evaluating vendor contract performance, managing supplier relationships, and conducting contract closure.
This unit specifies the competencies required to manage distribution of stored goods. It involves preparing distribution plan, developing distribution documents, organizing distribution logistics, tracking goods and fleet movement and managing distribution performance measurement.
This unit specifies the competencies required to manage warehousing of procured goods. It involves establishing warehouse design, warehouse layout, storing procured goods, maintaining stores documents, optimum stock levels and securing stored goods.
This unit specifies the competencies required to handle organization materials. It involves organizing materials movement, selecting handling equipment, securing organizations’ materials, managing safety of organizations’ materials and managing personnel safety
This unit specifies the competencies required to procure organizations’ goods and
services. It involves handling organizations’ requisitions, conducting market survey,
handling solicitation documents, preparing order documents, expediting procurement
orders, receiving procured goods and storing procured goods.
This unit specifies the competencies required to conduct public procurement. It involves preparing procurement plan, sourcing organizations’ goods and services, receiving procured goods and issuing procured goods.
This unit outlines the competencies required to implement strategic supply chain management. It covers:
Strategic supply chain analysis
Supply market analysis
Formulating supply chain strategies
Performing strategic sourcing
Selecting strategic suppliers
Conducting value chain analysis
Managing supply chain performance
This unit specifies the competencies required to manage supply chain operations. It involves developing organizations’ procurement policy, planning supply chain operations, managing procurement staff, coordinating supply chain operations and controlling supply chain operations.
This unit specifies the competencies required to lead the implementation of workplace’s safety and health program, procedures and policies/guidelines.
This unit specifies the competencies required to follow procedures for environmental hazard control, follow procedures for environmental pollution control, comply with workplace sustainable resource use, evaluate current practices in relation to resource usage, develop and adhere to environmental protection principles/strategies/guidelines, analyze resource use, develop resource conservation plans and implement selected plans.
This unit covers competencies required to demonstrate employability skills. It involves competencies for exuding self-awareness and dealing with everyday life challenges; demonstrating critical safe work habits and leading a workplace team; planning and organizing work activities; applying learning, creativity and innovativeness in workplace functions; pursuing professional growth and managing time effectively in the workplace
This unit describes the competencies required by a worker in order to apply a wide range of mathematical calculations for work; apply ratios, rates and proportions to solve problems; estimate, measure and calculate measurement for work; Use detailed maps to plan travel routes for work; Use geometry to draw and construct 2D and 3D shapes for work; Collect, organize and interpret statistical data; Use routine formula and algebraic expressions for work and use common functions of a scientific calculator.
This unit covers the competencies required in meeting communication needs of clients and colleagues; developing, establishing, maintaining communication pathways and strategies. It also covers competencies for conducting interview, facilitating group discussion and representing an organization in various forums.
This unit covers the competencies required to demonstrate an understanding of entrepreneurship. It involves demonstrating an understanding of financial literacy, applying entrepreneurial concepts identifying entrepreneurship opportunities, applying business legal aspects, developing business innovative strategies, and developing business plans.
This unit covers competencies required to effectively apply work ethics and practices. It involves the ability to: conduct self-management, promote ethical work practices and values, promote teamwork, manage workplace conflicts, maintain professional and personal development, apply problem-solving and promote customer care.
This unit covers the competencies required to demonstrate digital literacy. It
involves operating computer devices, solving tasks using the Office suite,
accessing online/offline data and information, performing online communication and collaboration, applying cybersecurity skills, performing jobs online and
applying job entry techniques.
This unit specifies the competencies required to apply business mathematics and statistics to solve business problems. It involves working out commercial mathematics, applying statistical equations, applying statistical matrices, carrying out elementary statistics, carrying out descriptive statistics, applying set theory, applying basic probability theory and using index numbers.
This unit specifies the competencies required to apply financial accounting skills. It involves applying accounting concepts, conventions and policies, preparing books of original entries, posting transactions to the ledger, preparing cash books, correcting accounting errors, preparing bank reconciliation statements, maintaining non-current assets register, maintaining receivables and payables ledgers and preparing sole trader statements.
This unit describes competencies required to effectively apply management principles in the workplace. It covers applying planning principles, organizing principles, directing principles and coordinating principles.
This unit specifies the competencies required to apply principles of commercial law; It involves demonstrating an understanding of nature of law, illustrating the structure of court system in Kenya, applying law of tort, law of contract, law of sale of goods, hire purchase contracts, law of agency, law of negotiable instruments, the law of insurance and the law of property.
This unit covers the competencies required to carry out research study. It includes: writing research study introduction, reviewing research literature, designing research study methodology, analyzing research study findings, summarizing research study findings and compiling research report.
This unit specifies the competencies required to apply economic skills. It involves; demonstrating understanding of economic concepts, applying demand concept in market analysis, applying supply concept in market analysis, setting prices of the products, applying theory of consumer behavior, applying production theory, applying theory of costs, differentiating market structures, determining national income, apply understanding of money and banking, apply understanding of inflation and unemployment and apply understanding of international trade.
This unit specifies the competencies required to undertake business communication. It involves administering communication channels, implementing types of communication, implementing service charter, safeguarding confidentiality of information, coordinating communication on social media platforms, preparing workplace meeting and reports.
This unit covers the competencies required to demonstrate an understanding of entrepreneurship. It involves demonstrating an understanding of financial literacy, applying entrepreneurial concepts identifying entrepreneurship opportunities, applying business legal aspects, developing business innovative strategies, and developing business plans.