Moodle is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System, Learning Management System, or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The stated philosophy of Moodle includes a constructivist and social constructionist approach to education, emphasizing that learners (and not just teachers) can contribute to the educational experience. Moodle supports an outcomes-oriented learning environment.
Moodle has several features considered typical of an e-learning platform, plus some original innovations (like its filtering system). Moodle is very similar to a learning management system. Moodle can be used in many types of environments such as in education, training and development, and business settings.
Some typical features of Moodle are
- Assignment submission
- Discussion forum
- Files download
- Grading
- Moodle instant messages
- Online calendar
- Online news and announcement (College and course level)
- Online quiz
- Wiki
Moodle's infrastructure supports many types of plug-ins:
- activities (including word and math games)
- resource types
- question types (multiple choice, true and false, fill in the blank, etc)
- data field types (for the database activity)
- graphical themes
- authentication methods (can require username and password accessibility)
- content filters
OpenSistemas and Moodle
During the last years, Open Sistemas has positioned as one of the major Moodle integrators in Spain. Moodle is for us not only a training platform, but a whole learning environment used to launch new products and services thanks to its extensions, the huge amount of functionalities and plugins that can be used and the great popularity of the environment in the educational community, as a reference solution.
Contact with us if you wish to obtain more information regarding how Moodle can help you solving your problems, or to be advised on this open training tool.
