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Quand Moodle sera stable, il sera assorti d'une license. S'il était vraiment bon, il serait déjà payant

Martin Dougiamas s'est engagé à ce que Moodle soit toujours gratuit et soumis à la license GPL. Et même si cela n'était, la communauté pourrait prendre le dernier code source sous license GPL et continuer le développement sur cette base. L'une des raisons pour lesquelles Moodle est si bon, c'est justement par ce que son code source est ouvert et libre, et la communauté internationale de la formation et de l'éducation peut ainsi continuer à le rendre encore meilleur.

Il ne vaut pas la peine d'envisager Moodle, sauf si vous avez un développeur php à plein-temps dans votre équipe. En tout cas il vous faudra beaucoup d'assistance technique pour le faire tourner chez vous

Un grand nombre d'institutions font tourner Moodle tel quel, sans aucun développeur php. Si vous voulez juste faire fonctionner Moodle, vous n'avez aucun besoin de connaître la programmation. Ceci dit, PHP est un langage de programmation très facile à apprendre, et le code source de Moodle est bien documenté. Si vous voulez donner un coup de main au développement, la courbe d'apprentissage est tout à fait douce.

Il est correct de dire que pour faire tourner votre propre copie de Moodle de façon sûre, vous aurez besoin d'une certaine connaissance technique, mais cela à plus à voir avec la mise en place d'un serveur web, d'une base de données SQL et d'un langage de script intégrés qu'avec le logiciel Moodle. Si vous pouvez maintenir votre propre serveur web, vous n'aurez pas de problème pour y faire tourner Moodle.

Et vous n'avez pas besoin de faire tourner Moodle chez vous. Il existe plusieurs partenaires Moodle qui le feront pour vous. Certaines autorités locales et des consortiums d'hébergement fournissent Moodle, et Moodle fonctionne aussi chez un grand nombre d'hébergeurs commerciaux.

Moodle won’t be compatible with our other systems/software

Moodle will run on Linux, Windows and Mac OS-X. It's compatible with a huge range of databases through ADODB integration. There's a whole host of authentication and enrolment mechanisms, including LDAP. Moodle will allow teachers to integrate content in a range of different formats, including SCORM, Flash, MP3s and RSS feeds. On the Roadmap for future releases is a Web API which will allow easy integration with other web-based applications.

Finally, remember that this is open source software, with a well documented data and file structure. If Moodle's not compatible with a particular application at the moment, then you can pay a developer to code up that integration, or develop it in-house.

Moodle just doesn’t have the commercial experience we’re looking for

Check out the partners. Moodle is currently used by some big name corporate clients for in-house CPD.

You can’t just use Moodle out of the box – the basic Moodle install just isn’t that sophisticated

Have a look at the feature list, all of which comes as standard. Additional themes, blocks and activities are easy to integrate and the vast majority are free, open source code too.

There’s no documentation, training or technical support available – you’re on your own

There's excellent (and expanding)documentation online, provided by the user and developer community. The Open University's Jason Cole has written an excellent introduction to Moodle for teachers, available as a proper book from O'Reilly.

Most users find the Moodle interface intuitive and this helps reduce the training requirements. It's possible for institutions to run in-house training and many have successfully adopted this approach. Some Moodle Partners moodle.com also specialize in training.

High quality, timely technical support is available from the user and developer community in the Using Moodle course on moodle.org. Some LAs and RBCs (Local Authorities and Regional Broadband Consortia in the UK) support Moodle in their areas. Commercial support contracts are available from authorised Moodle Partners moodle.com.

The total Cost of Ownership is actually higher for Moodle than it would be with a wholly commercial platform

Stop and think for a moment. With both Moodle and commercial platforms, you'll still need to pay for hosting, support, training and content, one way or another: with Moodle, more of these costs can be brought in-house, because the code's open source and Moodle's great at providing the tools teachers need to write online activities themselves, but that doesn't mean you have to.

The difference is that with Moodle, there are no licence fees to pay. None. The money you do spend can go back into making the software better, or remain within the educational community for the common good. None of it needs to go to meet shareholder dividends or pay back the venture capitalists. Furthermore, you're not exposed to the risks of commercial suppliers unilaterally increase their licence fees, or going out of business.

It's therefore not that surprising that when they examined the Total Cost of Ownership of open-source software on desktops in UK schools, government agency Becta found significant savings compared to commercial alternatives. The savings on support costs were particularly impressive. It's likely that these savings would have been greater still had they examined web-based applications like Moodle.

Moodle is just no good for an institution as large as mine

So, that would be one larger than the UK's Open University, with 180,000 students, yes? The OU has announced that they're moving to Moodle as their institutional VLE, and there are plenty of other large institutions officially using Moodle, and a good number of others where sections are.

Moodle is just not designed to cope with my specific group of learners or customers

Moodle's being used successfully from elementary education, including early years provision, up to higher education, in all subject areas including art, languages, the humanities and mathematics. It's also established itself in the world of life-long learning, teachers' CPD and corporate training.

We have all our stuff on *******, it’s just not worth the hassle of switching to Moodle

The switch may not be that much of a hassle, as Moodle will happily import content in a wide range of standard formats, including SCORM. There are an increasing number of Further and Higher Education institutions that are making the move.

Pedagogically, there's much to be gained from moving to a VLE which puts social, collaborative learning at the centre, and acknowledges the vital role that learners have to play, as well as providing teachers with the tools that they need to build effective on-line learning communities, rather than just presenting resources and activities.

From a financial perspective, the costs involved in switching to Moodle should be quickly recouped through savings in licence fees.

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Cette liste de mythes a pris forme à partir d'un message de Josie Fraser, faisant partie de la campagne HUGToB 2005-2006.