特性

Moodle是一個正在快速發展的產品。此頁只列出了它眾多特性中的一部份，它包含：

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

整體設計

• 推廣社會建構主義教育學（協作、活動、互相批評討論等）
• 適合於100%線上的課程，也可以作為傳統課程的補充
• 簡單、精巧、高效、相容，易學易用的瀏覽器介面介面
• 可以幾乎在任何支持 PHP 的平臺上安裝，安裝過程簡單。只需要一個資料庫（並且可以共用）
• 全面的資料庫抽象層，幾乎支援所有的主流資料庫（除了初始表定義）
• 課程列表顯示了伺服器上每門課程的描述，包括是否允許訪客使用
• 可以對課程分類和搜索 —— 一個 Moodle 網站可以支持成千上萬門課程
• 全面注重安全。所有的表單都被檢查，資料被校驗，cookie 被加密
• 絕大部分的文本（資源、論壇貼文等）可以用內建的所見即所得的編輯器編輯

Site management

• Site is managed by an admin user, defined during setup
• Plug-in "themes" allow the administrator to customize the site colors, 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 70 languages.
• The code is clearly-written PHP under a GPL license - easy to modify to suit your needs

網站管理

• 網站由admin用戶管理，在安裝過程中定義
• “主題”插件允許管理員根據需要自定義網站的顏色、字體、字形檔和佈局等
• 活動模組插件可以隨時被添加到已經安裝的 Moodle 中
• 語言包插件允許本地化到任何語言。可以使用內嵌的 web 編輯器編輯。目前已經有超過 43種語言 的語言包
• 代碼用 PHP 語言清晰地編寫，採用 GPL協議，可以按照您的要求輕鬆修改

User management

Overview

• Goals are to reduce admin involvement to a minimum, while retaining high security
• Supports a range of authentication mechanisms through plug-in authentication modules, allowing easy integration with existing systems.
• Standard email method: students can create their own login accounts. Email addresses are verified by confirmation.
• LDAP method: account logins can be checked against an LDAP server. Admin can specify which fields to use.
• IMAP, POP3, NNTP: account logins are checked against a mail or news server. SSL, certificates and TLS are supported.
• Students are encouraged to build an online profile including photos, description. Email addresses can be protected from display if required.
• Every user can specify their own timezone, and every date in Moodle is translated to that timezone (e.g. posting dates, assignment due dates etc)
• Every user can choose the language used for the Moodle interface (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese etc)

Enrolment

• Teachers can add an "enrolment key" to their courses to keep out non-students. They can give out this key face-to-face or via personal email etc
• Teachers can enrol students manually if desired
• Teachers can unenrol students manually if desired, otherwise they are automatically unenrolled after a certain period of inactivity (set by the admin)
• External database: any database containing at least two fields can be used as an external authentication source.
• Each person requires only one account for the whole server - each account can have different access
• Meta courses can group related courses so participants can interact with each other

Roles

• Roles for specific participants can be defined for each course
• An admin account controls the creation of courses and creates teachers by assigning users to courses
• Course creators can create courses, teach in them, and assign others to teacher roles.
• Teachers are a role in a specific course.
• Non-editing teacher roles are available for adjuncts, and part-time tutors.

用戶管理

• 目標是保持安全的前提下，儘量降低管理員的工作量
• 通過認證模組插件，支援多種認證機制，可以方便地與現有系統集成
• 標準 email認證：學生可以自己建立登入帳號。對 Email 位址進行確認檢查
• LDAP 認證：通過 LDAP伺服器對用戶的登入進行認證。管理員可以指定使用那些欄位
• IMAP、POP3、NNTP：通過郵件或新聞伺服器對用戶的登陸進行認證。支援 SSL、證書和TLS
• 外部資料庫：任何有至少兩個欄位的資料庫都可以用作外部認證源
• 每人只需要一個帳號就可以訪問整台伺服器——每個帳號可以有不同的許可權
• 管理員帳號控制課程的建立，並且任命普通用戶為教師
• 課程管理員只允許建立課程，並在自己建立的課程裏任教
• 可以去掉教師（比如兼職的助教）的編輯許可權，這樣他們就不能修改課程了
• 安全——教師可以給課程增加”選課密鑰”，使不屬於該課程的學生不能進入。可以以面對面或者email等方式告訴學生密鑰
• 教師可以根據需要手工添加學生到課程中來
• 教師可以根據需要手工登出學生，否則他們在一段時間（由網站管理員設置）不活動後會被自動註銷
• 鼓勵學生建立個人檔案，包括照片和個人描述。如果需要，email 位址可以不顯示
• 每個用戶可以設定自己的時區，並且 Moodle裏的每個日期都被自動轉換到該時區（例如發帖日期、作業截止日期等）
• 每個用戶可以選擇 Moodle的介面語言（英語、法語、德語、西班牙語、葡萄牙語等）

Course management

Overview

• A full teacher has full control over all settings for a course, including restricting other teachers
• Choice of course formats such as by week, by topic or a discussion-focussed social format
• Course Themes. A course can have its own theme of colors and layout.
• Flexible array of course activities - Forums, Quizzes, Glossaries, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops
• Groups - teacher(s) and students can be placed in one or more groups
• Recent changes to the course since the last login can be displayed on the course home page - helps give sense of community
• Most text entry areas (resources, forum postings etc) can be edited using an embedded WYSIWYG HTML editor
• All grades for Forums, Quizzes and Assignments can be viewed on one page (and downloaded as a spreadsheet file)
• Full user logging and tracking - activity reports for each student are available with graphs and details about each module (last access, number of times read) as well as a detailed "story" of each students involvement including postings etc on one page.
• Mail integration - copies of forum posts, teacher feedback etc can be mailed in HTML or plain text.
• Custom scales - teachers can define their own scales to be used for grading forums and assignments
• Courses can be packaged as a single zip file using the Backup function. These can be restored on any Moodle server.

課程管理

• 全職教師可以全面控制課程的所有設置，包括限制其他教師
• 可以選擇課程的格式為星期、主題或社區討論
• 靈活的課程活動配置—— 論壇、測驗、資源、投票、問卷調查、作業、聊天、專題討論
• 課程自上次登入以來的變化可以顯示在課程主頁上 —— 便於成員瞭解當前動態
• 絕大部分的文本（資源、論壇帖子等）可以用所見即所得的編輯器編輯
• 所有在論壇、測驗和作業評定的分數都可以在同一頁面查看（並且可以下載為試算表檔）
• 全面的用戶日誌和跟蹤——在同一頁面內統計每個學生的活動，顯示圖形報告，包括每個模組的細節（最後訪問時間、閱讀次數），還有參與的討論等，彙編為每個學生的詳細的“故事”。
• 郵件集成—— 把討論區貼文和教師回饋等以HTML或純文本格式的郵件發送。
• 自己定義評分等級——教師可以定義自己的評分等級，並用來在論壇和作業打分
• 使用備份功能可以把課程打包為一個 zip 檔。此檔可以在任何 Moodle 伺服器恢復。

Assignment Module

• Assignments can be specified with a due date and a maximum grade.
• Students can upload their assignments (any file format) to the server - they are date-stamped.
• Late assignments are allowed, but the amount of lateness is shown clearly to the teacher
• For each particular assignment, the whole class can be assessed (grade and comment) on one page in one form.
• Teacher feedback is appended to the assignment page for each student, and notification is mailed out.
• The teacher can choose to allow resubmission of assignments after grading (for regrading)

作業模組

• 可以指定作業的截止日期和最高分。
• 學生可以上傳作業（檔格式不限）到伺服器 ——上傳時間也被記錄。
• 也可以允許遲交作業，但教師可以清晰地看到遲交了多久
• 可以在一個頁面、一個表單內為整個班級的每份作業評分（打分和評價）。
• 教師的回饋會顯示在每個學生的作業頁面，並且有 email通知。
• 教師可以選擇打分後是否可以重新提交作業，以便重新打分

Chat Module

• Allows smooth, synchronous text interaction
• Includes profile pictures in the chat window
• Supports URLs, smilies, embedded HTML, images etc
• All sessions are logged for later viewing, and these can also be made available to students

聊天模組

• 支援平滑的、同步的文本交互
• 聊天視窗裏包含個人圖片
• 支援 URL、笑臉、嵌入HTML和圖片等
• 所有的談話都記錄下來供日後查看，並且也可以允許學生查看

Choice Module

• Like a poll. Can either be used to vote on something, or to get feedback from every student (eg research consent)
• Teacher sees intuitive table view of who chose what
• Students can optionally be allowed to see an up-to-date graph of results

投票模組

• 有點像選舉投票。可以用來為某件事表決，或從每名學生得到回饋（例如支持率調查)
• 教師可以在直觀的表格裏看到誰選擇了什麼
• 可以選擇是否允許學生看到更新的結果圖

Lesson Module

• A lesson is a series of pages which can be presented in a linear fashion, like a slide show, or in a non-linear, branching manner, or a combination of the two.
• Pages can allow students choices through teacher directed questions or branches
• Offers different scoring and grading potentials
• Navigation through the lesson can be straight forward or complex, logical or random.
• Lessons can build upon each other through conditional dependencies upon one another
• Question pages include Multiple choice, T/F, numeric, short answer and essay.
• Pages can be imported either as questions in a variety of formats or from Powerpoints
• Student attempts, time limits, minimum score and retakes can be set.
• Page content is HTML compatible, with a full set of edit tools for the teacher
• Students may see progress bars, running score, reinforcement to student questions
• Password protected

Forum Module

• Different types of forums are available, such as teacher-only, course news, open-to-all, and one-thread-per-user.
• All postings have the authors photo attached.
• Discussions can be viewed nested, flat or threaded, oldest or newest first.
• Individual forums can be subscribed to by each person so that copies are forwarded via email, or the teacher can force subscription for all
• The teacher can choose not to allow replies (eg for an announcements-only forum)
• Discussion threads can be easily moved between forums by the teacher
• Attached images are shown inline
• If forum ratings are being used, these can be restricted to a range of dates

論壇模組

• 有多種類型的論壇供選擇，例如教師專用、課程新聞、全面開放和每用戶一話題。
• 每個貼文都帶有作者的照片。
• 可以以嵌套、列表和樹狀方式流覽話題，也可以讓舊貼在前或新貼在前。
• 每個人都可以訂閱指定論壇，這樣帖子會以 email 方式發送。教師也可以強迫每人訂閱
• 教師可以設定論壇為不可回復（例如只用來發公告的論壇）
• 教師可以輕鬆地在論壇間移動話題
• 圖片附件內嵌顯示
• 如果論壇允許評級，那麼可以限制有效時間段

Quiz Module

• Teachers can define a database of questions for re-use in different quizzes
• Questions can be stored in categories for easy access, and these categories can be "published" to make them accessible from any course on the site.
• Quizzes are automatically graded, and can be re-graded if questions are modified
• Quizzes can have a limited time window outside of which they are not available
• At the teacher's option, quizzes can be attempted multiple times, and can show feedback and/or correct answers
• Quiz questions and quiz answers can be shuffled (randomised) to reduce cheating
• Questions allow HTML and images
• Questions can be imported from external text files
• Quizzes can be attempted multiple times, if desired
• Attempts can be cumulative, if desired, and finished over several sessions
• Multiple-choice questions supporting single or multiple answers
• Short Answer questions (words or phrases)
• True-False questions
• Matching questions
• Random questions
• Numerical questions (with allowable ranges)
• Embedded-answer questions (cloze style) with answers within passages of text
• Embedded descriptive text and graphics

測驗模組

• 教師可以定義題庫，在不同的測驗裏重複使用
• 題目可以分門別類地保存，易於使用，並且可以公佈這些分類，供同一網站的其他課程使用。
• 題目自動評分，並且如果題目更改，可以重新評分
• 可以為測驗指定開放時間
• 根據教師的設定，測驗可以被作答多次，並能顯示回饋和/或正確答案
• 題目和答案可以亂序（隨機）顯示，減少作弊
• 題目可以包含HTML和圖片
• 題目可以從外部文字檔案匯入
• 如果願意，可以分多次完成測驗，每次的結果被自動累積。
• 選擇題支持一個或多個答案(單選或複選題)
• 填空題（詞或短語）
• 是非題
• 配合題
• 隨機題
• 數字題（含容許誤差範圍）
• 嵌入答案題（克漏字），在文字描述中填寫答案
• 嵌入圖片和文字描述

Resource Module

• Supports display of any electronic content, Word, Powerpoint, Flash, Video, Sounds etc. that are stored locally, or remotely
• Files can be uploaded and managed (zipped, unzipped, renamed, moved, etc..) on the server
• Folders can be created and managed on the server and linked to
• Internal web pages (html formatted) can be created with WYSIWYG editor and linked to
• Internal text pages (no formatting) can be created and linked to
• External content on the web can be linked to or seamlessly included within the course interface.
• External web applications can be linked to with data passed to them
• Linked MP3 audio files will display with elegant flash player

資源模組

• 支援顯示任何電子文檔、Word、Powerpoint、Flash、視頻和聲音等
• 可以上傳檔案，並在伺服器進行管理，或者使用 web 表單動態建立（文本或HTML）
• 可以連接到Web上的外部資源，也可以無縫地將其包含到課程介面裏。
• 可以用鏈結將資料傳遞給外部的web應用

問卷調查模組

• 內置的問卷調查（COLLES、ATTLS）作為分析線上課程的工具已經被證明有效
• 隨時可以查看線上問卷的報告，包括很多圖形。資料可以以 Excel試算表或 CSV文字檔案的格式下載。
• 問卷介面防止未完成的調查。
• 學生的回答和班級的平均情況相比較，作為回饋提供給學生

Workshop工作坊

• 學生對給定的文檔進行公平的評價，教師對評價進行管理並打分。
• 支援各種可能的評分量尺。
• 教師可以提供範例文檔供學生練習評分。
• 有很多非常彈性的選項。