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Product Description:
Moodle is a learning management system for producing Internet-based course web sites. It is written in PHP and is easy to install and use on Mac OS X (as well as Windows, Unix, Linux and Netware). It has been designed to support modern pedagogies based on social constructionist theory, and includes activity modules such as forums, resources, journals, quizzes, surveys, choices, glossaries, lessons and assignments. It has been translated into over 35 languages, with more on the way. Moodle offers a free alternative to commercial courseware such as WebCT and Blackboard, and is being used by a growing number of universities, schools, and independent teachers for distance education or to supplement face-to-face teaching.
What's new in this version:
- Web pages are compliant with XHTML Transitional 1.0
- Improved Accessibility, aiming for compliance with WAI (W3C), SENDA (UK) and Section 508 (US) criteria.
- Very strong new Themes system, allowing cascading themes, user themes, course themes, with very fine control of every page in Moodle via CSS.
- Integrated Messaging feature for direct communication between all users in the site, featuring realtime popup windows, notification, email copies, blocking, history, WYSIWYG editor, etc
- Forum read/unread tracking with highlights allows you to see new postings at a glance and to control how these are displayed (per forum, per user or per site).
- New Blocks system, allowing multiple copies of blocks and better block configuration
- Full support for Daylight Savings Time in every locality around the globe, so everyone always see the correct local time for all events.
- New extended gradebook allowing custom weighting of different activities, setting extra grades (or taking out others) and improved display and sorting options
- Users can be required to agree to a Site Policy
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
Additional Requirements:
- Apache web server (OS X standard version is fine)
- PHP module with GD (for example, Marc Liyanage's free binary module)
- SQL database (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
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Download Moodle Version 1.5 (File Size: 16.5M)
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Download Moodle Current Version (File Size: 13k)
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Feedback Summary:
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Features: | (5.0) |
Support: | (5.0) |
| Ease of Use: | (5.0) |
Quality / Stability: | (5.0) |
Price: | (5.0) |
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Featured Reviews
One of the best! - Version: 1.7.1, 1/19/2007 02:40PM PST
(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)
joat--mon
One of the best! - Version: 1.7.1, 1/19/2007 02:36PM PST
joat--mon
Moodle is an incredibly well done and well supported product. It's at the top, including both commercial and open-source offerings. Installation is straight-forward and you must be server-savvy. The administrative, instructor and student interfaces are very clean and relatively clear so no additional documentation or training is required.
Excellent set of additional customizations (activities, modules) provided at no cost by 3rd parties. Note that the basic moodle distribution is so complete that these are not necessary, merely extensions of value.
Upgrading from one version to another is easy, but any customizations must be dealt with as you'd expect with this kind of system and architecture.
Excellent set of additional customizations (activities, modules) provided at no cost by 3rd parties. Note that the basic moodle distribution is so complete that these are not necessary, merely extensions of value.
Upgrading from one version to another is easy, but any customizations must be dealt with as you'd expect with this kind of system and architecture.
One of the best! - Version: 1.7.1, 1/19/2007 02:35PM PST
joat--mon
Moodle is an incredibly well done and well supported product. It came in at the top among our choices which included both commercial and open-source offerings.
Installation is straight-forward. You must be server-savvy.
The administrative, instructor and student interfaces are very clean and relatively clear so no additional documentation or training is required.
Excellent set of additional customizations (activities, modules) provided at no cost by 3rd parties. Note that the basic moodle distribution is so complete that these are not necessary, merely extensions of value.
Upgrading from one version to another is easy, but any customizations must be dealt with as you'd expect with this kind of system and architecture.
Installation is straight-forward. You must be server-savvy.
The administrative, instructor and student interfaces are very clean and relatively clear so no additional documentation or training is required.
Excellent set of additional customizations (activities, modules) provided at no cost by 3rd parties. Note that the basic moodle distribution is so complete that these are not necessary, merely extensions of value.
Upgrading from one version to another is easy, but any customizations must be dealt with as you'd expect with this kind of system and architecture.
Installation is straight-forward. You must be server-savvy.
The administrative, instructor and student interfaces are very clean and relatively clear so no additional documentation or training is required.
Excellent set of additional customizations (activities, modules) provided at no cost by 3rd parties. Note that the basic moodle distribution is so complete that these are not necessary, merely extensions of value.
Upgrading from one version to another is easy, but any customizations must be dealt with as you'd expect with this kind of system and architecture.