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Moodle is an open source learning management system that is said to be 80% more cost effective than other LMS providers. No wonder, it is being used worldwide by education institutions, even companies to provide online learning for students and employees. It is flexible that it can be used to conduct online courses. It even supports face-to-face teaching, learning and retraining. This online training system can also be extended with hundreds of plugins for exams, quizzes, grading system, certification, and collaborative learning.
Moodle is an acronym which stands for ‘Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment’. It was developed by Martin Dougaimas way back in 2002. Now, it has been adopted Worldwide, where users benefit from each other – through collaborative effort, the Moodle community discovers the value of an open source project, where users are actively engaged in improving the user experience.
Moodle Features
Just like Totara LMS, this online learning platform is feature packed that provides powerful tools to help millions of users Worldwide learn online. It’s totally easy to use that it only takes a matter of time to get the hang of it. The learning system is well presented so users won’t find it hard to upload new documents, assignments and receive feedback in timely manner. The Moodle administrators continue to provide rapid bug fixes, new features, and improvements, with every major release that happens every six months. It’s being used by learning environments Worldwide. Institutions include Shell, State University of New York, Microsoft, London School of Economics, and the Open University.
· Specifically designed for teaching and learning – With over a decade of development guided by the Moodle community, this LMS provides a powerful set of learning tools and environments that empower teaching and learning.
· Very Easy to Use – it comes with a simple interface with drag-and-drop features.
· Absolutely Free (no licensing fees) – since it’s an open source software, any users can adapt, extend or modify it for commercial and non-commercial use without a fee or any licensing fees.
· Always updated – Moodle is continually being updated on to suit the evolving needs of its users.
· Multilanguage support – it offers multiple-language support (more than 120 language) so users can easily localize their Moodle site.
· Flexible and Scalable to any size – Since it’s open source, it can be fully customized to tailor to individual needs. It can also be scaled to support the needs of any organization. No wonder, it has been adapted for use across business, government, education, and community contexts.
· Secured and private – it is developed to safeguard your data and privacy. Security controls are updated and implemented to protect its users against unauthorized access, data loss or corruption, and misuse. It can also be deployed on a private secure cloud (OpenStack) for complete control.
· Free Online Resources – users can access extensive documentation, forums, free content/courses, hundreds of plugins shared by its community Worldwide.
· Community support – it’s backed up by an active international community (a team of dedicated developers and certified Moodle Partners).
· Quiz Module Feature – this allows the trainer or the teacher to create quizzes easily with a variety of Question types, including true/false, multiple choice, numerical, essay, or matching type. The questions made are kept in a database “Question bank” which can be re-used on other quizzes.
· Chat Module Feature – allows healthy interaction between the teachers and the student. Just like other chat engines, it supports profile pictures in the chat window, URLs, chat smileys, HTML, photos, etc..
· Survey Module Feature – this serves as an instrument to analyze the online classes. Reports are available 24/7 and the data can be downloaded via an Excel spreadsheet.
· Choice Module Feature – it functions a poll where students can vote on something, or provide feedback to the Teachers or vice versa.
· Workshop Module Feature – it’s an interface where the teachers manage and assess the class documents. This is where he/she can compute for the grade of his/her students. It supports different kinds of grading scales.
· Assignment Module Feature – this allows the teachers or the trainer to collate the homework of his/her students, review them and provide grades, scores, or feedback. The homework submitted by students are visible only to the teacher or the trainer and not to other students.
· Forum – It is a portal where students and teachers can post their ideas and respond to each other.
How to Setup Moodle
You can ask make us as Partner like to do Moodle implementation for you. Upon installation, you can now easily create your own online courses using its built-in features. Moreover, you can also upload content such as assignments, exams, and quizzes. You can even add collaborative activities like wikis, forums, or glossaries to learning scalable, effective and FUN.
Moodle is indeed a powerful tool to help you educate your organization. Contact us here.