11May Meddling with Moodle
Sometime last year I downloaded an open source content managment system (CMS) called Moodle. Actually it’s more than just a content management system. It’s a specialised CMS called a course management system (also abbreviated CMS).
Then a few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to help him set up some new features for his Moodle based training application. It was an interesting journey of discovery and rediscovery.
Basically Moodle enables you to run online courses. You can set up anything from a simple online lesson with a quiz to a whole online university with multiple lecturers, students and courses!
When I went through it the first time round, I was amazed by the capacity and capabilities it has- all for FREE.
There is a long list of features such as the ability to enable students to enrol themselves for courses or to have teachers enrol students manually. Teachers can develop courses on the site, set up tests, send emails to students and post test results among a plethora of other functionalities.
Students can participate in forums and thus interact with other students, pace themselves in the courses, submit assignments, etc. Like I said- I was blown away. And I repeat Moodle is FREE. The last time a collaborative online project took my breath away like this was when I discovered Mambo (which now has a more famous sister called Joomla! in 2003).
Moodle is a totally cool application.
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