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Moodle is free software that you can use to create dynamic web sites where teachers and students can communicate and collaborate in educational ways. It needs to be installed on a web server somewhere (either by your

Our focus is always on giving educators the tools to manage and promote learning, but there are many ways to use Moodle:

Some institutions use it as the platform for fully online courses, while some use it simply to augment face-to-face courses (known as blended learning).
Moodle has a lot of features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
Many of our users love to use the many activity modules (such as Forums, Wikis, Databases and so on) to build richly collaborative communities of learning around their subject matter (in the social constructionist tradition), while others prefer to use Moodle as a way to deliver content to students (such as standard SCORM packages) and assess learning using assignments or quizzes.

For further information, including details of the philosophy and background of Moodle, see the documentation about Moodle.

The Moodle Features Demo Course provides examples of Moodle activities for you to explore as a student (also available in other languages - see the Moodle demonstration courses category).

For a full demo of Moodle as a teacher or administrator, please visit the Moodle Demonstration Site.

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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 social constructionist framework of education.
+Moodle is free software that you can use to create dynamic web sites where teachers and students can communicate and collaborate in educational ways.  It needs to be installed on a web server somewhere (either by your
-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.
+Our focus is always on giving educators the tools to manage and promote learning, but there are many ways to use Moodle:
+* Some institutions use it as the platform for fully online courses, while some use it simply to augment face-to-face courses (known as blended learning).
+* Moodle has a lot of features that allow it to scale to very large deployments and hundreds of thousands of students, yet it can also be used for a primary school or an education hobbyist.
+* Many of our users love to use the many activity modules (such as Forums, Wikis, Databases and so on) to build richly collaborative communities of learning around their subject matter (in the social constructionist tradition), while others prefer to use Moodle as a way to deliver content to students (such as standard SCORM packages) and assess learning using assignments or quizzes.
 For further information, including details of the philosophy and background of Moodle, see the [[About Moodle|documentation about Moodle]].

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