Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system (LMS) that provides educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalized learning environments. It features a variety of tools for teaching, collaboration, communication and assessment that allow teachers to create online courses and students to participate in learning activities. Some key capabilities include course management, assignment creation and submission, forums, wikis, quizzes and grading. Moodle has a global user base of over 80,000 sites with millions of users and is available in many different languages.

1. What is Moodle ?
Moodle that is the acronym for :
Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
Is a free software e-learning platform, also known as a Learning Management System ( LMS ),
or Virtual Learning Environment ( VLE ). Moodle can be used in many types of environments
such as in education, training and development, and business settings
Moodle was originally developed by “Martin Dougiamas” to help educators create online
courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content, and is in continual
evolution. The first version of Moodle was released on 20 August 2002. As of June 2013 it
had a user base of 83,008 registered and verified sites, serving 70,696,570 users in 7.5+
million courses with 1.2+ million teachers and available in 78 languages
Features
General
features
Course Development
& Management
feature
Administrative
feature
Moodle

2. General features
1) Modern, Easy to use interface
Designed to be responsive and accessible, the Moodle interface is easy to navigate on both desktop
and mobile devices
2) Personalized Dashboard
Organize and display courses the way you want, and view at a glance current tasks and
messages

3. 3) Collaborative tools and activities
Work and learn together in forums, wikis, glossaries, database activities, and much more
4) All-in-one calendar
Moodle’s calendar tool helps you keep track of your academic or company calendar, course
Deadlines, group meetings, and other personal events

4. 5) Convenient file management
Drag files from cloud storage services including MS SkyDrive, Dropbox and Google Drive
6) Simple and intuitive text editor
Format text and conveniently add media and images with an editor that works across all web
Browsers and devices

5. 7) Notifications
When enabled, users can receive automatic alerts on new assignments and deadlines, forum
Posts and also send private messages to one another
8) Track progress
Educators and learners can track progress and completion with an array of options for Tracking
individual activities or resources and at course level

6. Administrative Features
1) Customizable site design and layout
Easily customize a Moodle theme with your logo, color schemes and much more - or simply
Design your own theme
2) Secure authentication and mass enrolment
Over 50 authentication and enrolment options to add and enroll users to your Moodle site and
courses

7. 3) Multilingual capability
Allow users to view course content and learn in their own language, or set it up for multilingual
users and organizations
4) Bulk course creation and easy backup
Add courses in bulk, backup and restore large courses with ease

8. 5) Manage user roles and permissions
Address security concerns by defining roles to specify and manage user access
6) Supports open standards
Readily import and export IMS-LTI, SCORM courses and more into Moodle

9. 7) High interoperability
Freely integrate external applications and content or create your own plugin for custom
integrations
8) Simple add-ons and plugin management
Install and disable add-ons and plugins within a single admin interface

10. 9) Regular security updates
Moodle is regularly updated with the latest security patches to help ensure your Moodle site is
secure
10) Detailed reporting and logs
View and generate reports on activity and participation at course and site level

11. Course Development and Management Features
1) Direct learning paths
Design and manage courses to meet various requirements. Classes can be instructor-led, self-
paced, blended or entirely online
2) Encourage collaboration
Built-in collaborative publishing features foster engagement and encourage content-driven
collaboration

12. 3) Embed external resources
Teach materials and include assignments from other sites and connect to the grade book in
Moodle
4) Multimedia Integration
Moodle’s built-in media support enables you to easily search for and insert video and audio
files in your courses

13. 5) Group management
Group learners to share courses, differentiate activities and facilitate team work
6) Marking workflow
Conveniently assign different markers to assignments, manage grade moderation and control
when marks are released to individual learners

14. 7) In-line marking
Easily review and provide in-line feedback by annotating on PDF files directly within browser
8) Peer and self-assessment
Built-in activities such as workshops and surveys encourages learners to view, grade and assess
their own and other course members' work as a group

15. 9) Integrated Badges
Fully compatible with Mozilla Open Badges, motivate learners and reward participation and
Achievement with customized Badges
10) Outcomes and rubrics
Select from advanced grading methods to tailor the grade book to your course and Examination
criteria

16. 11) Security and privacy
Teach and share in a private space only you and your class can access
What Teachers can do with Moodle
Create online
courses
Open
forums
Divide
students into
Classes
Upload files &
lessons
Create online
test &
examinations
Chat
sessions

17. What Student can do with Moodle
Tools
Follow the
lessons
Upload their
Homework
and text
Chat
sessions
Take part
into forums
Moodle
Teaching tools
Communication
tools
Collaboration
tools
Assessment
tools

18. Tools of Moodle
Teaching tools:
1) Assignment
A tool for creating gradable items and allowing students to upload digital content in response.
Students can enter assignment text directly, or submit essays, spreadsheets, presentations, web
pages, photographs or graphics, or small audio or video clips.
2) Lessons
Using lessons, you simply enforce sequential viewing of various pieces of content and you can
create programmed learning units in which each correct answer brings up a new piece of
information and a new question
3) SCORM package
Using this tool, you can upload any package of SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference
Model) content to your Moodle course. This type of content is created using HTML, JavaScript
and SWF files for web-based learning
4) Resources
A "resource" is any type of external web content that you add to your Moodle course. For
example, a web page or a text or image file.
Collaborative tools:
1) Groups
This tool allows you to set up groups and then let students choose which group they want to
join. You can specify maximum numbers for the groups

19. 2) Glossary
A tool for embedding glossaries of terms used by practitioners in your area of study. Glossaries
can be created interactively, with students contributing terms and definitions
 Allowing comments to encourage interaction.
 Encouraging students to add images and links to their definitions, for a more dynamic
Glossary generally and more 'stickability' of definitions.
3) Wiki
Wikis are collections of collaboratively authored web pages, beginning with a home page that
students can edit, and to which they can link more pages.
4) Blogs
A blog (weblog) is an online journal, with entries organized chronologically with the most recent
first. Blogs can be a group or an individual effort. Blogs in Moodle are user-based; each user
has their own non-course-specific blog.
Communication tools:
1) Forum
An online discussion board where you and your students can post messages to each other, and
keep track of individual discussions.
2) Chat
The Chat tool allows students and teachers to have real-time synchronous text-based discussion
in an online chat room.
3) Messaging
You can message a specific group of students within a Moodle course, and configure how you
will receive return messages.

20. 4) News forum
A News forum is automatically created for the course home page of every course. Only
teachers and administrators may post to the News forum or reply to posts on it, but every
enrolled person is automatically subscribed. Use the News forum for general announcements.
5) Calendar
The calendar can display site, course, group and user events in addition to assignment and
quiz deadlines, chat times and other course events. A calendar may be included in a course or
the site Front page by adding a Calendar block or an Upcoming Events block
Assessment tools:
1) Quizzes
In Moodle, you can
 Create quizzes with different question types
 Randomly generate quizzes from pools of questions
 Allow students to re-take quizzes multiple times
2) Questionnaire
The Questionnaire tool is for data-gathering, not for assessment. Use it to obtain student
feedback or opinion. This tool offers a variety of question types: for example, check boxes,
radio buttons, essay boxes, rating/scaling.
3) Grades
You can record, track and calculate grades within Moodle. The grading tool is complex and
flexible
4) Feedback
A student-survey tool. You can view responses in summary or analysis format, or by individual
user. You can specify anonymous response if you wish
So… This is Moodle !