Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a Free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.
Moodle is a full-featured learning management system with many features. Most people use just the few things that are most effective for their discipline and teaching style. Below is a quick table of the features that are available and what they might be used for, to help you find the tools you need for your course.
Modules
| Module Name | Description |
| Assignment | Enable teachers to grade and give comments on uploaded files and assignments created on and off line |
| Attendance | Allows teachers to keep detailed records on attendance and participation |
| Chat | Allows participants to have a real-time synchronous discussion |
| Choice | A teacher asks a question and specifies a choice of multiple responses |
| Database | Enables participants to create, maintain and search a bank of record entries |
| External Tool (LTI) | Allows participants to interact with LTI compliant learning resources and activities on other web sites. (These must first be set up by an administrator on the site before being available in individual courses.) |
| Feedback | For creating and conducting surveys to collect feedback. Similar to Questionnaire, but allows for anonymous feedback. |
| Forum | Allows participants to have online discussions to complement class |
| Glossary | Enables participants to create and maintain a list of definitions, like a dictionary |
| Lesson | For delivering content in flexible ways |
| Questionnaire | Allows the teacher to design survey questions for students, such as mid-term evaluations |
| Quickmail | A block that allows the teacher to email the whole class, a group, or select students. |
| Quiz | Allows the teacher to design and set quiz tests, which may be automatically marked and feedback and/or to correct answers shown |
| Scheduler | Allows participants to sign up for time slots created by the teacher |
| SCORM | Enables SCORM packages to be included as course content, sometimes SCORM modules are available from textbook publishers |
| Survey | For gathering data from students to help teachers learn about their class and reflect on their own teaching using pre-loaded surveys, including COLLES (Constructivist Online Learning Environment Survey) and ATTLS (Attitudes to Thinking and Learning Survey) |
| Wiki | A collection of web pages that anyone can add to or edit |
| Workshop | Enables peer assessment |
Features
| Feature Name | Description |
| Gradebook | Allows teacher to collect and calculate grades, with the option of allowing to students to see their only grade calculations for the course |
| Restrict Access | Available on any activity, resource or section, this feature allows the professor to restrict access by date/time, group membership, user profile attributes, or completion status of previous activities |
| Completion Tracking | Allows teacher to set criteria that marks an activity ‘complete’. Used in conjunction with access restriction, teachers can create modules that ‘unlock’ when students finish other activities. There is also a complete tracking block that can help students know what they have completed and what they still need to do. |
Some of the most useful Moodle features:
- Posting a document or pdf for students to access
- Show or hide courses or specific activities
- Format moodle
- Restore old moodle courses (whether from 2014/15 and later or 2013/14 and earlier)
- Have students share material with each other on a forum
- Weighting grades
Version : 3.9.1, 3.7.7, 3.5.13, 3.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.0.10
Last Release Date: 13-07-2020
Size: 171 MB
Try the demonstration: Demo