These are the slides from the "Introduction to Moodle" Webinar hosted by Conor Gilligan on the 16th of January 2014. The full YouTube video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8jYudKXqO4

1. Introduction to Moodle LMS
Conor Gilligan,
Vice President Workplace Learning
Webanywhere Inc

2. Agenda
What is Moodle?
Who are the Moodle Partners?
What is the Webanywhere flavor of Moodle?
Examples
Delivery options
Benefits

3. What is Moodle?
Open Source
Scalable
Community driven for learning, not for profit
Easy to use and to implement

4. Moodle Community
Modular
Moodle Community (70+ Million)
- Social Constructivism
Object
Orientated
Dynamic
Learning
Moodle
‘plugins’
Moodle
‘plugins’
Moodle
‘plugins’
Moodle
‘plugins’
Environment
Moodle Core - Founder Martin Dougiamas

5. Moodle - top of the pack
According to Learning Solutions Magazine Moodle is the most popular
LMS globally
Source: http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/111/

6. Key facts
Very Active Development Team -> Hundreds of developers around
the world
Community driven -> 70+ million users
Localized -> 218 countries, 90+ languages
Publically available roadmap
Most innovative LMS globally -> e.g. first LMS to
integrate with Open Badges

7. Core functions
Wikis
Mobile friendly, HTML5
Workshop management
Audio / Video
Forums / Chat
Calendar
Quizzes
Website Links
e-Learning packages
PDF / Word documents
Integration with Rapid Authoring
tools (e.g. Articulate)
RSS feeds
Tracking and Reporting

8. Who are Moodle partners?
Appointed by Moodle directly
Trusted providers of Moodle services
Provide implementation, customization, hosting, support and training
- a managed service
Contribute 10% of sales back to Moodle HQ to support the open
source project

9. Who uses Moodle?

10. What is the Webanywhere flavor?
Moodle
Webanywhere's flavor

11. Examples

12. Delivery options
SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)
- No investment in IT infrastructure
- Rapid delivery, maximise ROI
- Scalable and Robust
Delivered on your servers
- Implementation on your hardware
- Secure behind a firewall

13. Conclusion - Benefits
No license fees / open source
Scalable, largest install 2 Million
+ users
Driven by a community of
learners!
Interoperable with other systems
No vendor lock-in
Supports multiple languages
Flexible software
Used by 70+ million learners
worldwide
Publically available roadmap

14. Thank you
Questions?
Conor Gilligan
Vice President Workplace Learning
conor.gilligan@webanywhere.us
866-713-0496