Moodle – Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment
Moodle which is an abbreviation for “Modular Object Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment”, is a course management system designed to enable educators and teachers who are looking to create quality online courses. Moodle can be easily classified as a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or even as a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a free online application that can be used by educated effectively to impart education online.
The software has become popular worldwide and is being used by various universities, schools, companies and independent teachers. The software is open source and is absolutely free of charge. Moodle can be installed on any computer that can run PHP, and can support an SQL type database , it can easily be run on Windows and Mac operating systems and many flavors of linux as well.
The operability of Moodle can be extended by creating and installing various plug-ins, Moodle supports the following types of plug-ins:
• Plug-ins for activities that include games such as word and math games which are pretty useful and fun to use.
• Different question type patterns, such as multiple choice, true or false, fill in the blanks and many more.
• It provides plug-ins for graphical themes as well
• It provides effective authentication methods, which may require username and password for accessing.
• It includes content filters and various enrolment methods.
Since its development has been supported by open source programmers, you can expect periodic enhancements, and also rapid bug fixes. The term Moodle was used to loosely describe how a teacher or student might approach to an online teach course, and anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.
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