moodle

Chalk board with various icons and logosMoodle in the classroom

What is Moodle – It’s a virtual learning platform that supplements work carried out in the classroom. It allows teachers to set work to be done outside the classroom, such as course work and homework. It makes use of the pedagogical approach to teaching/learning by incorporating facilities that emulate this style of teaching and learning

  • Planning and marking made easy
  • Forum, IM, Group, personal email, workshops, wiki’s, SCORM and much more
  • Students can get instant / quick online help from teachers and students
  • Allows multiple courses
  • Allows many groups
  • Offers a 6 tier configurable hierarchy of admin capability
  • Can use custom design
  • Moodle is used by the top 100 US universities, and over 6,000 schools

 

 

chalkboard and moodle logoMoodle outside the classroom

Moodles suite of capabilities makes it very popular outside of its intended academic use. Because Moodle is not proprietary software, it allows the quick and easy development by designers and finds use within the voluntary sector as a project management suite for joint agency and other partnership work

  • Working across company firewalls
  • Not blocked by university and many public sector firewalls
  • Easy to use
  • Forum, IM, Group, personal email, workshops, glossary, wiki’s and much more
  • Accessible
  • Customisable Themes
  • Message all or one person