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Moodle is an active and evolving product. This page lists just some of the many features it contains: | |||
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== Overall design == | |||
* Promotes a social constructionist pedagogy (collaboration, activities, critical reflection, etc) | |||
* Suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning | |||
* Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech browser interface | |||
* Easy to install on almost any platform that supports PHP. Requires only one database (and can share it). | |||
* Full database abstraction supports all major brands of database (except for initial table definition) | |||
* Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including accessibility to guests. | |||
* Courses can be categorised and searched - one Moodle site can support thousands of courses | |||
* Emphasis on strong security throughout. Forms are all checked, data validated, cookies encrypted etc | |||
* Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor | |||
== Site management == | |||
* Site is managed by an admin user, defined during setup | |||
* Plug-in "themes" allow the admin to customise the site colours, fonts, layout etc to suit local needs | |||
* Plug-in activity modules can be added to existing Moodle installations | |||
* Plug-in language packs allow full localisation to any language. These can be edited using a built-in web-based editor. Currently there are language packs for over [http://download.moodle.org/lang/ 60 languages]. | |||
* The code is clearly-written PHP under a GPL license - easy to modify to suit your needs | |||
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Revision as of 15:51, 2 July 2005
Moodle is an active and evolving product. This page lists just some of the many features it contains:
Overall design
- Promotes a social constructionist pedagogy (collaboration, activities, critical reflection, etc)
- Suitable for 100% online classes as well as supplementing face-to-face learning
- Simple, lightweight, efficient, compatible, low-tech browser interface
- Easy to install on almost any platform that supports PHP. Requires only one database (and can share it).
- Full database abstraction supports all major brands of database (except for initial table definition)
- Course listing shows descriptions for every course on the server, including accessibility to guests.
- Courses can be categorised and searched - one Moodle site can support thousands of courses
- Emphasis on strong security throughout. Forms are all checked, data validated, cookies encrypted etc
- Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
Site management
- Site is managed by an admin user, defined during setup
- Plug-in "themes" allow the admin to customise the site colours, fonts, layout etc to suit local needs
- Plug-in activity modules can be added to existing Moodle installations
- Plug-in language packs allow full localisation to any language. These can be edited using a built-in web-based editor. Currently there are language packs for over 60 languages.
- The code is clearly-written PHP under a GPL license - easy to modify to suit your needs