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Moodle Overview

An LMS is a software application used by educational institutions to administer, track, and report on classroom and online learning events. Moodle is a free and popular open-source LMS that can be used to create online courses or supplement face-to-face instruction. It has over 40 million users worldwide and is used by K-12 schools, universities, and other organizations. Moodle provides features like forums, wikis, blogs, file sharing and more to support teaching and learning.

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Moodle Overview

An LMS is a software application used by educational institutions to administer, track, and report on classroom and online learning events. Moodle is a free and popular open-source LMS that can be used to create online courses or supplement face-to-face instruction. It has over 40 million users worldwide and is used by K-12 schools, universities, and other organizations. Moodle provides features like forums, wikis, blogs, file sharing and more to support teaching and learning.

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What is a Learning Management System (LMS)?

An LMS is a software application that can be used to administer, document, track, and report classroom and online events. LMSs can be used as software to distribute courses over the Internet with features for online learning, online assessment, and collaborative learning. They are often used by educational institutions to enhance and support classroom teaching and to offer courses to a larger population of learners across the globe.

What is Moodle?
Moodle is a free, web based, learning management system that educators can use to create online learning sites. It is a safe and secure environment where participants can access learning materials and communicate with their facilitators and other participants. Moodle can be scaled to hundreds of thousands of students or to a school or classroom level. It can be used to conduct fully online courses or to supplement face-to-face courses. Moodle comes with many resource and activity modules such as discussion forums, wikis, blogs, and chats, and it can be used for assignments, grades, and for file sharing between teachers and students.

Who uses Moodle?


Though Moodle is free to download and registration is voluntary, it is estimated that worldwide there are 49,789 registered sites in 212 countries with 40,063,575 users. In the United States, there are 9,421 registered sites. In the Northeast Georgia region, we know of two school systems using Moodle countywide and the UGA Educational Technology Center has four Moodle sites. Several other school systems in the area are considering starting their own Moodle sites.

What is needed to start a Moodle site?


A school or system wanting to start a Moodle site needs to install the Moodle software on a web server somewhere either on a local machine or on a machine kept by a web hosting company.

How much does Moodle cost?


The Moodle software download is free!

Is Moodle secure?
Yes. Users of your Moodle site can be required to log in with a username and password before they can see any content on the site. Also, users can be assigned roles with varying degrees of access to site content and settings.

How diverse are Moodles uses?


Very diverse. Moodle can be used in a variety of ways from teacher to student centered. Teachers can share numerous file types with students including documents, web sites, sound, and video files. Students can share files with teachers via assignments and databases. Moodle also allows for web 2.0 tools and collaboration via built-in chats, discussion forums, blogs, and wikis.

Is Moodle easy to use?


Despite Moodles diverse uses and ability to be customized via teacher and admin level controls and settings, it is user-friendly and easy to use. Information buttons are scattered throughout to guide a teacher in adding content, and for students, most resources and activities are only a click away.

Where are some Moodle examples?


Moodle Share http://moodleshare.org/ Elbert County Moodle http://elearn.elbert.k12.ga.us Madison County Moodle http://madcomoodle.madison.k12.ga.us Jefferson City Schools Moodle http://moodle.jeffcityschools.org/ UGA ETC Moodle http://venus.coe.uga.edu/moodle

Where can I learn more about Moodle?


Contact the UGA ETC: University of Georgia Educational Technology Center 850 College Station Road Rivers Crossing Annex Athens, GA 30605 706.542.0240 etc.coe.uga.edu [email protected] Moodle Installation, User Imports and Accounts Teacher Training including Student Engagement, Collaboration, Assessment, and Differentiation

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