What is Moodle?
Moodle is a course management system (CMS) – a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities. It has a significant user base with 25,281 registered sites with 10,405,167 users in 1,023,914 courses (as of May 13, 2007).It is distributed under the GNU General Public License and is an active and evolving work in progress, subject to a roadmap.Moodle can also be called as ‘Virtual Learning Environment’ (VLE) or ‘Learning Platform’. It provides a range of functionality covering content creation and delivery, communication and collaboration and management, including tracking and assessment tools.
What do we require to run Moodle?
You can easily install Moodle on a standard Windows computer on your desktop or on a Mac.If you wants to run a stable Moodle service for a school, college, business etc., you should really invest in a dedicated server with more capacity for your users. Moodle runs on a variety of platforms – the most common being Linux/Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
How do you login to get started in Moodle?
1) Go to http://moodle.lamission.edu/login/signup.php
2) type in your own username and password – write it down so you do not forget it
3) type in a real email address, and then type it in to confirm it
4) type in first name, last name, country, city and country
5) click on “create account”
6) your registration is not complete
7) you need to go to your home email, and click on the confirmation email, then you are registered for moodle
you only have to do this one time
9) now that you have registered then go to your class under moodle
10) click on it, and then enroll. Now you are then ready to start work on your class.
