Moodle cloud hosting, installers and virtual machines. More on Moodle Moodle offers students and instructors a personalized dashboard listing courses and tasks, and collaborative tools including forums, wikis and group calendars. It lets you work with files stored in cloud services like Dropbox, and supports notifications and private messaging between users. It is available for multiple languages, supports open standards like Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) and Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM), and works well with screen readers. Finally, it comes with an extensive plugins directory together with support from more than 60 worldwide partners.
Launch on more than a Single VM using Moodle Multi-Tier Bitnami offers a multi-tier Moodle configuration that puts the application and database on multiple virtual machines. This provides improved capacity over a single VM and separates the database contents from the machine where the application code is running. Key terms. A Moodle site is made up of courses which are basically pages containing the learning materials teachers want to share with their students.
A teacher in a Moodle course can select items from three different elements which together assist in the learning process. They are: Activities, Resources and Blocks. Activities An Activity in Moodle is a feature where students learn by interacting with each other or with their teacher. They might for instance contribute in a forum, upload an assignment, answer questions in a quiz or collaborate together in a wiki. Activities can be graded. A teacher can add activities by turning on the editing and choosing an activity by clicking Add an activity or resource in a course section. Resources A Resource in Moodle is an item that a teacher can add to a Moodle course to support learning, such as a file, a video or link to a website. Blocks A Block in Moodle is an item that a teacher can add to the left or right of a Moodle course page. About Moodle FAQ. Below is a list of general questions many educators ask about Moodle. There are also Frequently Asked Question pages for many specific Moodle tools.
Starting with Moodle What is Moodle? Moodle is a learning management system (LMS, also called VLE), explained here. In many ways, Moodle is like Lego, as this Slideshare presentation shows. How do I start using Moodle? You can download your own copy and install it on your server. Where do I get it (from)? You can download Moodle in a variety of packages and install it yourself or have a Moodle Partner do it for you.
Do I have to be really good with technology to use Moodle? To use Moodle, you only need the basic web browsing skills. What age of learners and educational settings is Moodle most appropriate for? Moodle can be and is successfully used from early years of Primary schools (examples here) through to the Secondary sector (examples) and universities worldwide. Is Moodle just for online learning? It can be. Certainly. Navigation and settings. Site - basic structure. Usage. Who uses Moodle? Moodle is used by a variety of institutions and individuals, including: Universities High schools Primary schools Government departments Healthcare organisations Military organistions Airlines Oil companies Homeschoolers Independent educators special educators How many Moodle sites are there There are tens of thousands of registered Moodle sites in the sites list that we maintain, however it is impossible to know exactly how many Moodle sites exist because Moodle is open source, free to download and distribute, and doesn't force registration on its users.
Very often we find people will not inform us about their sites. For up-to-date summary statistics about registered sites browse the Moodle Statistics page. How statistics are collected and maintained Registration All information collected by moodle.org is from site administrators that have registered their sites with us. Moderation Maintenance Like most of the web many sites come and go. See also. About. Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.
You can download the software onto your own web server or ask one of our knowledgable Moodle Partners to assist you. Moodle is built by the Moodle project which is led and coordinated by Moodle HQ, an Australian company of 30 developers which is financially supported by a network of 60 Moodle Partner service companies worldwide. Built for learning, globally Proven and trusted worldwide Powering tens of thousands of learning environments globally, Moodle is trusted by institutions and organisations large and small, including Shell, London School of Economics, State University of New York, Microsoft and the Open University.
Moodle’s worldwide numbers of more than 65 million users across both academic and enterprise level usage makes it the world’s most widely used learning platform. Easy to use See also.