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What is Moodle?

Moodle is a Learning Management System (LMS) designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. It has WCAG 2.1 Level AA accreditation. You can obtain Moodle officially in three ways:

Download the free open-source software onto your own web server if you are technically minded;
Purchase a low-cost MoodleCloud site, installed and managed directly by the people who make Moodle and particularly tailored to individuals or small to medium organisations;
Connect with one of our Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers who will advise you and configure Moodle to your exact specifications. They can also provide Moodle Workplace, an enterprise LMS combining the best of Moodle LMS with more advanced tools for workplace learning.

A free Moodle app is available for Android and iOS, with the possibility of purchasing your own branded Moodle app.

Moodle is developed and maintained by Moodle Pty Ltd, familiarly known as Moodle HQ. The open-source software, originally created over 20 years ago by Founder Martin Dougiamas is supported financially by a network of over 104 Moodle Partnerships worldwide and an increasing number of valued Certified Integrations. Clients purchasing a MoodleCloud site, along with voluntary donations, also help maintain Moodle's commitment to open-source learning and further advance the mission to Empower educators to improve our world.

Built for learning, globally

Proven and trusted worldwide

Powering hundreds of thousands of learning environments globally, Moodle is trusted by institutions and organisations large and small, including Shell, London School of Economics, State University of New York, Google and the Open University. Moodle's worldwide numbers across both academic and enterprise level usage makes it the world's most widely used learning platform.

Teach and learn in the way you prefer

With over 20 years of development guided by social constructionist pedagogy, Moodle delivers a powerful set of learner-centric tools and collaborative learning environments that empower both teaching and learning, while at the same time allowing teachers and trainers to customise their course according to their own preferred methods.

Free with no licensing fees

Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software, under the GNU General Public License. Anyone can adapt, extend or modify Moodle for both commercial and non-commercial projects without any licensing fees and benefit from the cost-efficiencies, flexibility and other advantages of using Moodle.

Moodle in your language

Moodle's multilingual capabilities ensure there are no linguistic limitations to learning online. The Moodle community of translators has translated Moodle into more than 120 languages (and counting) so users can easily localise their Moodle site, along with plenty of resources, support and community discussions available in various languages.

Free, global support

Access extensive Moodle documentation and free 24/7 support user forums in multiple languages.
Benefit from free courses for administrators, educators and developers on Moodle Academy, and download free content and courses shared by Moodle users across the world.
Enhance your site with plugins contributed by a large global community.

Find out more

Subscribe to Moodle.org community news to stay up to date with the open-source community. Subscribe to Moodle.com to receive regular news posts, interviews and event announcements.

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-Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a [[Philosophy|social constructionist]] framework of education.
+==What is Moodle?==
+Moodle is a Learning Management System (LMS) designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments. It has [https://docs.moodle.org/en/VPAT#Moodle_accessibility_conformance_report WCAG 2.1 Level AA accreditation.] You can obtain Moodle officially in three ways:
+# [http://download.moodle.org/ Download the free open-source software] onto your own web server if you are technically minded;
+# Purchase a low-cost [https://www.moodlecloud.com/ MoodleCloud site], installed and managed directly by the people who make Moodle and particularly tailored to individuals or small to medium organisations;
+#[https://moodle.com/partners Connect with one of our Moodle Certified Partners and Service Providers] who will advise you and configure Moodle to your exact specifications. They can also provide [https://moodle.com/solutions/workplace/ Moodle Workplace], an enterprise LMS combining the best of Moodle LMS with more advanced tools for workplace learning.
-Moodle is provided freely as [http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html Open Source] software (under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU Public License]). Basically this means Moodle is copyrighted, but that you have additional freedoms. You are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that you agree to: '''provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights''', and '''apply this same license to any derivative work'''. Read the [[License|license]] for full details and please contact the [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=1&course=1 copyright holder] directly if you have any questions.
+A free [https://download.moodle.org/mobile/ Moodle app] is available for Android and iOS, with the possibility of purchasing your own [https://moodle.com/solutions/moodle-app/ branded Moodle app].
-Moodle will run on any computer that can run [http://www.php.net/ PHP], and can support many types of database (particularly [http://www.mysql.com/ MySQL]).
+Moodle is developed and maintained by Moodle Pty Ltd, familiarly known as Moodle HQ. The open-source software, [https://moodle.com/about/the-moodle-story/ originally created over 20 years ago by Founder Martin Dougiamas] is supported financially by a network of over [http://moodle.com/partners 104 Moodle Partnerships] worldwide and an increasing number of valued [https://moodle.com/certified-integrations/ Certified Integrations]. Clients purchasing a [https://moodlecloud.com MoodleCloud site], along with [https://moodle.com/donations/ voluntary donations], also help maintain Moodle's commitment to open-source learning and further advance the mission to '''Empower educators to improve our world.'''
-The word Moodle was originally an acronym for Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment, which is mostly useful to programmers and education theorists.  It's also a verb that describes the process of lazily meandering through something, doing things as it occurs to you to do them, an enjoyable tinkering that often leads to insight and creativity. As such it applies both to the way Moodle was developed, and to the way a student or teacher might approach studying or teaching an online course. Anyone who uses Moodle is a Moodler.
+==Built for learning, globally==
-Come [http://moodle.org/community/ moodle with us]!
+===Proven and trusted worldwide===
+Powering [https://moodle.org/stats/ hundreds of thousands of learning environments globally], Moodle is trusted by institutions and organisations large and small, including Shell, London School of Economics, State University of New York, Google and the Open University. Moodle's [https://moodle.net/stats/ worldwide numbers]  across both academic and enterprise level usage makes it the world's most widely used learning platform.
-==See also==
+===Teach and learn in the way you prefer===
+With over 20 years of development guided by [[Philosophy|social constructionist pedagogy]], Moodle delivers a powerful set of learner-centric tools and collaborative learning environments that empower both teaching and learning, while at the same time allowing teachers and trainers to customise their course according to  their own preferred methods.
-*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle Moodle at Wikipedia]
+===Free with no licensing fees===
-*[[Using Moodle book]]
+Moodle is provided freely as [http://opensource.org/docs/osd Open Source] software, under the [[:dev:License|GNU General Public License]]. Anyone can adapt, extend or modify Moodle for both commercial and non-commercial projects without any licensing fees and benefit from the cost-efficiencies, flexibility and other advantages of using Moodle.
-*[[Presentations]]
-* Moodle Conferences: [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=moodlemoot Moodlemoots]
+===Moodle in your language===
+Moodle's [[Language|multilingual]] capabilities ensure there are no linguistic limitations to learning online. The [https://lang.moodle.org Moodle community of translators] has translated Moodle into more than 120 languages (and counting) so users can easily localise their Moodle site, along with plenty of resources, support and [https://moodle.org/course/ community discussions] available in various languages.
+==Free, global support==
+*Access extensive [https://docs.moodle.org/overview/ Moodle documentation] and free 24/7 support [https://moodle.org/course/ user forums] in multiple languages.
+*Benefit from free courses for administrators, educators and developers on [https://moodle.academy Moodle Academy],  and download free [http://moodle.net/ content and courses] shared by Moodle users across the world.
+*Enhance your site with  [https://moodle.org/plugins/ plugins] contributed by a large global community.
+==Find out more==
+Subscribe to [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=82 Moodle.org community news] to stay up to date with the open-source community.
+Subscribe to [https://moodle.com Moodle.com] to receive regular news posts, interviews and event announcements.
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+*[[Philosophy]]
+*[[Pedagogy]]
+*[[Standards]]
+*[[History]]
+*[[Usage]]
+*[[Moodle site - basic structure]]
+*[[Moodle key terms]]
+*[[About Moodle FAQ]]
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