What is Moodle?
Moodle is a free, open-source learning management system (LMS) that educators can use to create effective online learning sites. With customizable courses, activities, and resources, Moodle provides tools to create engaging content for students in online, blended, or face-to-face classes.
Some key features of Moodle include:
- Course management tools to add learning materials, assignments, quizzes, forums, polls, calendars, chat rooms, and more.
- Collaboration tools like wikis, databases, glossaries, and workshops for student interaction and peer review.
- Grading and reporting capabilities to assess student progress and performance.
- Integration with media like images, audio, video, and links for rich course content.
- Mobile compatibility through responsive design and mobile apps.
- Customizable platform with plugins and themes to tailor functionality and branding.
- Security and privacy controls to keep student data safe.
- Analytics to track usage, activity, completion rates, and more.
With an intuitive interface and active community supporting development, Moodle is used by individual teachers, universities, corporations, and more to lower costs and improve learning outcomes.