What is Moodle?
Moodle is an Open Source Learning Management System (LMS), also known as Course Management System (CMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
It is a very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students. Moodle is a box of tools on a single, robust, easy to use and customisable platform for teachers and learners in virtually any educational setting.
How can I use Moodle?
The focus of Moodle is giving educators the best tools to manage and promote learning. Moodle has features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
- A platform to conduct fully online courses, or simply to augment face-to-face courses.
- Use forums, databases and wikis to build richly collaborative communities of learning.
- Create blogs, videos, podcasts, newsletters, FAQs
- A way to deliver content to students and assess learning using assignments or quizzes.
Why would I consider using Moodle?
Creative use of Moodle enhances teaching and learning.
Who uses Moodle?
Moodle has a large and diverse user community with over 1,000,000 registered users on moodle.org, speaking over 75 languages in 175 countries.
From giants like Open University (UK) with over 600 000 users to single primary school classes, Moodle can be used to conduct courses fully online or, in most cases, to support face-to-face teaching and learning.
How can Loaded Technologies help?
Moodle development, hosting, integration and support:
Loaded Technologies has expertise in integrating Moodle with third-party applications such as Content Management Systems (Joomla, Drupal, DotNetNuke), and CRM (SugarCRM).