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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:
- Unicode: Moodle is now 100% Unicode, which means any language can be mixed together and an end to a number of problems that different character sets caused us.
- Documentation: A new one-stop wiki site for ALL Moodle documentation, including links from Moodle itself
- Database module: A new activity module that allows collaborative collection of structured data, useful for many things!
- LAMS: Integrated via a course format and an activity module
- Blogs: Allows reflection on an ongoing basis. Entries are marked and can be viewed by user, course, group, site etc. Contains first new support for Tags.
- Reports: All reports are now centralised under Course reports and Admin reports. New reports can be written as plugins and dropped in very easily. One big new report is the new course-based statistics system from Catalyst.
- Questions: A centralized bank of questions with the potential to be (re-)used in a variety of modules.
- My Moodle: A dashboard interface that allows an overview for each user of all their courses etc.
- Hive integration: This initial integration with Hive allows teachers to upload, browse, search and select resources within the external repository.
- Multiple groups: Users can be part of multiple groups within a course
- IMS content package resource type: Supports the loading of any content package as a resource, with an optional repository for sharing packages between courses.
- Granularised backup
- Chameleon theme: An interactive Moodle theme
- Multi enrolment: Moodle's enrolment plugins can be used simultaneously on the same site. Also new IMS Enterprise enrolment plugin.
- Authorize.net Payment Gateway enrolment plugin: New feature called 'Order Review'. Admins and teachers may accept or deny payments before processing the credit card and they can also refund payments after processing the credit card in 'Payment Management' page. Students may view their order details. Address Verification System (AVS) and Scheduled-Capture support added. For 'Manual-Capture' admins are notified 5 days prior to pending orders expiring.
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:
- PHP 4.3.0 or later
- MySQL 4.1.16 or later
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Featured Reviews
One of the best! - Version: 1.7.1, 1/19/2007 02:40PM PST
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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.