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Revision as of 03:07, 27 April 2011
What is Moodle?
Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System. It can be used to conduct online courses as well as to supplement existing traditional classroom courses.
What are Moodle's features?
- Developed in PHP/MySQL.
- It was first released in 2002.
- Can support thousands of courses.
- Provides so-called activity modules. Examples of modules are:
assignments, glossary, forums, databases, chats, and wikis.
- The administrator chooses which modules to install.
- Course listing shows all courses on the server making them available to guests.
- There are tens of thousands of registered Moodle sites.
- Wide community support
- Users of the system are assigned a role which specifies their priviliges on
the site: Administrators, Teachers, Assistant Teachers, Students and Guests
Advantages of Moodle
- It is an Open Source System (released under the GNU Public License), which
costs no money to implement and is being continually developed by a community of developers world-wide.
Requirements
- Needs to be installed on a web server.
- As any other system, it needs to be monitored and maintained.
Note:
moodle.org provides a demonstration site with sample courses: http://demo.moodle.net/