Features

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

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