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Moodle
Moodle is a course management system (CMS)
- a free, Open Source software
package designed
using sound pedagogical principles,
to help educators
create effective online learning communities.
You can download and use it on any computer you
have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from
a single-teacher site to a University with
200,000 students.
A CMS designed to help educators create quality online
ourses. Available in 34 languages and features a
WYSIWYG HTML editor
Moodle is a software package for producing
internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing
development project designed to support a social
constructionist framework of education.
Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software
(under the GNU Public License). Basically this means
Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional
freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify
Moodle provided that you agree to: provide the source
to others; not modify or remove the original license
and copyrights, and apply this same license to any
derivative work. Read the license for full details and
please contact the copyright holder directly if you have
any questions.
Moodle can be installed on any computer that can
run PHP, and can support a SQL type database
(for example MySQL). It can be run on Windows and
Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux
(for example Red Hat or Debian GNU).
There are many knowledgable Moodle Partners to
assist you, even host your Moodle site.
The word Moodle was originally an acronym for
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic
Learning Environment which is mostly useful to
programmers and education
theorists.
It's also a verb that describes the process of
lazily meandering through something, doing things as
it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that
often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies
both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way
a student or teacher might approach studying or
teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle
is a Moodler.
Moodle Community
Moodle has a large and diverse user community with
over 330,000 registered users on this site alone,
speaking over 70 languages in 196 countries.
The best place to start is
Using Moodle,
which is where
the main international discussions are held in English,
but we have a variety of groups discussing other topics
and in other languages.
Visit
Home Page
Moodle support
forum
(We are not associated with the support forum)
New Installation (v. 1.8.4)
Disk space required: 50.09 MB
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