About Moodle FAQ and Videos

Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It has become very popular among educators around the world as a tool for creating online dynamic web sites for their students.

What is Moodle?

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

Moodle has 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 institutions use it as their platform to conduct fully online courses, while some use it simply to augment face-to-face courses (known as blended learning).
Many of our users love to use the activity modules (such as forums, databases and wikis) 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.

General questions many educators ask about Moodle, and frequently asked question pages.

Do I have to be really good with technology to use Moodle?

To use Moodle, you only need the basic web browsing skills.

What age of learners and educational settings is Moodle most appropriate for?

Moodle can be and is successfully used from early years of Primary schools through to the Secondary sector and universities worldwide. Moodle can be adapted to suit learners of all ages in any learning environment, including commercial training.

It can be. However, in most cases Moodle is used to support and combine face-to-face interaction with e-learning, m-learning and other forms of learning.

How do I login to Moodle? click

Go to the right URL (address) of the Moodle site, login with your username and password,

How do I get around Moodle? Click

Use the Navigation block on the side of your page. From there you can go directly to any part of Moodle you have access to.

How do I edit things? click

You can only edit things you have permission to edit. A regular user such as a student can only edit their My Moodle page and possibly their profile page. A user with editing rights such as a teacher can use the 'Turn editing on' button or the link in the Settings block to edit items.

Are there any good examples of Moodle use I can see?

Sure! There are video tutorial on the homepage.