Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Moodle

Moodle was created by Martin Dougiamas, a WebCT administrator at Curtin University, Australia, who was graduate degrees in Computer Science and Education.

Moodle is a free and open source, e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Enviroment.

Moodle is designed to help educators create online courses with opportunities for rich interaction. Its open source license and modular design means that people can develp additional functionality.

Moodle has many features expected from an e-learning platform, plus some original innovations.

Moodle is modular in construction and can readily be extended by creating pluguins for specific funtionality. Moodle's infrastucture supports many types of pluguins.

  • Activities
  • Resource types
  • Question types
  • Data field types
  • Graphical themes
  • Authentication methods
  • Enrollment methods
  • Content Filtres

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