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*[[Teacher documentation |What does a teacher need to know?]] A good starting place to learn about the robust features in a Moodle course | *[[Teacher documentation |What does a teacher need to know?]] A good starting place to learn about the robust features in a Moodle course. | ||
*[http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=34 The Moodle "Features" Course] is a place to see how these things work. | *[http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=34 The Moodle "Features" Course] is a place to see how these things work. | ||
*Later you might be ready for [http://demo.moodle.org/ Demo.moodle]. Here you can play on a Moodle site as a teacher, administrator or student. | *Later you might be ready for [http://demo.moodle.org/ Demo.moodle]. Here you can play on a Moodle site as a teacher, administrator or student. | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle Moodle at Wikipedia] | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle The Moodle page at Wikipedia]. MoodleDocs and Wikipedia both use MediaWiki. | ||
*[[Using Moodle book]] for those who must have | *[[Moodle_manuals]] has many links or there is the [[Using Moodle book]] for those who must have an Adobe document to read or print. | ||
*[[Moodle presentations| | *[[Moodle presentations| Here is where Moodlers]] share their "This is Moodle" presentations. | ||
*[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=moodlemoot Moodlemoots] are Moodle Conferences. | *[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=moodlemoot Moodlemoots] are Moodle Conferences can have both face to face and virtural components. | ||
*Each of the links below will take you to a different alphabetical index of topics, such as the Administrator index or Teacher index. | *Each of the links below will take you to a different alphabetical index of topics, such as the Administrator index or Teacher index. | ||
Revision as of 21:17, 16 October 2006
Moodle is a software package for producing internet-based courses and web sites. It's an ongoing development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education.
Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software (under the 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 for full details and please contact the copyright holder directly if you have any questions.
Moodle will run on any computer that can run PHP, and can support many types of database (particularly MySQL).
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.
Come moodle with us!
See also
- What does a teacher need to know? A good starting place to learn about the robust features in a Moodle course.
- The Moodle "Features" Course is a place to see how these things work.
- Later you might be ready for Demo.moodle. Here you can play on a Moodle site as a teacher, administrator or student.
- The Moodle page at Wikipedia. MoodleDocs and Wikipedia both use MediaWiki.
- Moodle_manuals has many links or there is the Using Moodle book for those who must have an Adobe document to read or print.
- Here is where Moodlers share their "This is Moodle" presentations.
- Moodlemoots are Moodle Conferences can have both face to face and virtural components.
- Each of the links below will take you to a different alphabetical index of topics, such as the Administrator index or Teacher index.
