Moodle is an open-source learning management system (LMS) that is used by educational institutions and companies for e-learning and online training. It provides features like content uploading, tracking, discussion forums, and customizable looks. While Moodle is free to use, organizations need to invest in hosting, customization, reporting, course set-up, training, and potentially bespoke modules. Support is available through an active community on the Moodle website.

1. Putting Moodle to Work Steve Rayson, Partner Mark Aberdour, Chief Executive

2. Agenda What is Moodle and who uses it? What you get with Moodle - and what you don't How you can use Moodle - Example implementations Licence free but investment you need to make 5 top tips and 5 key mistakes to avoid Moodle community support

3. What is Moodle? Open Source LMS/VLE Linux/Windows/Mac Used by Open University Widely used Poll 2

4. Medium & Small Companies E-learning Guild Research – April 2007

5. 10% of surveyed companies use Moodle in the US

6. Moodle Growth

7. How many active Moodle developers are there? How many community users are active answering questions each month on the Moodle forum? Is it available in different languages?

8. Moodle Some Facts Development team size 130+ active developers Customer base 47,600+ registered sites serving 22m users 293 registered sites with over 10,000 users Open University: 3590 courses and 452,000 users Localisation 75+ language packs available Popularity 70,000+ downloads per month Nearly 500,000 registered community users Community growing at 850 users per day 30,000 active on the community site each month

9. The Open Source advantage No licence costs Avoid vendor lock-in Mitigation of vendor collapse or product discontinuation Enhanced reliability Fixes and patches get to market more quickly Ease of customisation Did you know that 24% of commercial LMS buyers want to change platforms? They cited a number of key problem areas: out of the box functionality management reporting ease of customisation inflexible data models and architectures rapid return on investment vendor service and support (Bersin, 2007)

10. Why do companies use Moodle?

11. How companies use Moodle

12. Four Key Moodle Uses E-learning launching and tracking Facilitating learning Discussion forums Chat rooms Wikis Supporting classroom courses Online performance support centre Sales academy

13. What you get Fully featured VLE/LMS Robust Scalable Customisable Easy to use Supported – free and paid

14. What features does Moodle provide?

15. Features Upload range of content e-learning packages word documents pdf documents audio video web links Functionality includes full tracking calendar discussion forums chat rooms RSS feeds blogs wikis groups

16. Ease of Use Moodle modular with many components Simply turn them on and off as needed Create side blocks for news, promotions, links etc. Move side blocks with click of a button Change look easily Add resources easily

18. Case Studies

26. What do you need to spend money on?

27. Moodle Investment Hosting & back up Customise look and feel Reporting Course set up Admin and tutor training Bespoke modules

28. Top Tips Start small eg sales academy Customise look and feel Use variety of media Let tutors run their courses/areas Integrate other tools eg Slideshare Youtube Surveymonkey News feeds

29. Community Support Moodle is a community project Great support from the Moodle community www.moodle.org

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