Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. You can download and use it on any computer you have handy (including webhosts), yet it can scale from a single-teacher site to a University with 200,000 students. This site itself is created using Moodle, so check out the Moodle Demonstration Courses or read the latest Moodle Buzz.
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This CMS can be used as an informal learning site where all users have comparable permissions, or as a more hierarchical learning environment with students, teachers, classes, and working groups.
Some of the functionality within this site includes:
a personal workspace;
a group workspace;
the ability for site members to create informal working groups;
the ability to create formal class spaces;
a podcasting platform;
a WYSIWYG text editor;
wiki functionality;
personal and class blogs;
rss feeds for the entire site, individual courses, individual terms, and individual users;
personal image galleries;
personal file repositories;
the ability to create private, invitation-only groups;
social bookmarking, with searching within bookmark descriptions;
spam protection;
assignment calendars by course;
event calendars for site-wide events;
configurable user profiles with searchable text descriptions;
the ability to create lists of “friends” among site members;
the ability to find the missing sock in the dryer.
The goal of this site is to create a flexible framework that allows for users to set up a social learning environment or a more traditional learning environment depending on the needs of the learners within the site. With this current framework, both approaches are supported.
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