• Moodle is a widely adopted electronic learning platform, one that boasts greater reported usage than any other open source or commercial LMS. It's used by about 1. 1 million teachers and more than 38 million users via 49,000 sites worldwide.
• Moodle supports both small and large deployments (with several sites well beyond 100,000 users) and includes course management tools, various Web 2. 0 technologies, online assessments, and other features common to learning management systems. The latest 2. 0 release, formally launched last week (Thanksgiving day), adds a wide range of new capabilities as well as improvements to the core functionality found in earlier releases. Moodle 2. 0 allows users to set up "community hubs," which are searchable directories of courses for public or private use that allow teachers to publish and advertise their own courses.
• Moodle lead developer Martin Dougiamas said in a blog post Thursday that development had already begun on version 2. 0. 1, with a particular emphasis on "performance and robustness." He added: "We are also switching the whole project from CVS to git and taking the opportunity to significantly improve our entire development process with more staff and better structures and workflow." Aside from individual efforts, Moodle partners in the United States that contributed funding or code to the development of version 2. 0 included ClassroomRevolution. com, Moodlerooms, NewSchool Learning, and Remote-Learner USA. (A total of 51 partners from around the world contributed. ) Moodle 2. 0 supports PHP 5. 2. 8 (5. 3. 3 recommended); a minimum of MySQL 5. 0. 25, PostgreSQL 8. 3, Oracle 10. 2, or Microsoft SQL Server 2005; and most recent browsers, regardless of platform, including Safari 3, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3, Chrome 4, or Opera 9.
Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System
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