Moodle and Virtual Learning An Introduction

What is Moodle?

Modular Object-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment (moodle) is a free and open-source e- learning software platform for Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The aim of moodle is to create online courses with a focus on interaction and collaborative construction of content. As of 9 January 2010 moodle had a user-base of 46,624 registered sites with 32,464,992 users in 3,161,291 courses in 209 countries and in more than 75 languages!

Simply enter your name and password

Click here For Course Content

Submitting Coursework on

Assignment info

Alternatively, if the answer is short (say around 1000 characters, you can provide a box here for students to insert their answers You can also ask students to provide multiple choice answers

Testing Students on Moodle

Editing Moodle

To edit switch yourself to “Teacher” mode, then turn editing on

Edit MoveDelete

Choose an option here to insert a text page, a file, link to a website, etc

You can add a document, a powerpoint, even a podcast

Other Features on

Monitor who is involved

Monitoring Grades

News and Social Forum

In your

Unlike News Forum Student can also add a topic here

Calendar highlight major events